Both are haunted, Becky by the ghostly form of her missing brother Conrad, her aged five memories seem to make little sense while Roy is haunted by Eric Scoones, one time friend whose memory is seriously tainted. Becky aims to demonstrate that Roy is wrong about woman, that her ambition will throw open these hallowed narrow doors wide by, shock, horror, admitting female students. She represents its future just as Roy Straitley, classics teacher of many years, is its past. Rebecca Buckfast née Price is the first woman headteacher through the ‘narrow door’ of St Oswalds, Malbry, the institution rocked by murder and scandal. She also spends too much time on Twitter plays flute and bass guitar in a band first formed when she was 16 and works from a shed in her garden at her home in Yorkshire. Her hobbies are listed in Who's Who as 'mooching, lounging, strutting, strumming, priest-baiting and quiet subversion'. She is an honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and in 2022 was awarded an OBE by the Queen. In 2000, her 1999 novel CHOCOLAT was adapted to the screen, starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. She has also written a DR WHO novella for the BBC, has scripted guest episodes for the game ZOMBIES, RUN!, and is currently engaged in a number of musical theatre projects as well as developing an original drama for television. Her work is extremely diverse, covering aspects of magic realism, suspense, historical fiction, mythology and fantasy. Joanne Harris is an Anglo-French author, whose books include fourteen novels, two cookbooks and many short stories. After all, you can't keep a good woman down.Joanne Harris is also known as Joanne M. She'll bury the past so deep it will evade even her own memory, just like she has done before. And with it, the remains of a body are discovered.īut Rebecca is here to make her mark.

As the new regime takes on the old guard, the ground shifts. Barely forty, she is just starting to reap the harvest of her ambition.

Rebecca Buckfast has spilled blood to reach this position. For the first time in its history, a headmistress is in power, the gates opening to girls. It's an incendiary moment for St Oswald's school. Now I'm in charge, the gates are my gates. 'A psychological thriller you can't put down and an antiheroine you won't forget.'-Harlan Coben Fierce.'-Bridget Collins, bestselling author of The Binding 'A dark world of emotional complexity and betrayal, where twist follows twist and nothing is what it seems.'-Alex Michaelides, bestselling author of The Silent Patient An electrifying tale of psychological suspense and revenge at an elite grammar school where secrets run deep.

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