Oswald’s, long a boys-only domain, is dragged into the current century with the appointment of its first headmistress in its 500-year-old existence. The icy rage and ruthless revenge is turned up even higher in A Narrow Door, in which St. Oswald’s embodied the spirit of a fierce chess match.
Agent: Michael Carlisle, InkWell Management. 'Joanne Harris’s previous novels set at the tweedy British boarding school St. This spectacular feat of storytelling will seduce the reader from page one. A Narrow Door by Joanne Harris 4,398 ratings, 3.97 average rating, 554 reviews A Narrow Door Quotes Showing 1-6 of 6 disappeared, Joanne Harris, A Narrow Door 0 likes Like Working at King Henrys, and later at St Oswalds, I had always had to be tough on myself, and gentle on men. Harris keeps the suspense high all the way to the exhilarating ending. Rebecca’s account of the devastating effects that her older brother’s disappearance had on her family, and events that subsequently took place in 1989 when she was a substitute teacher at his grammar school, alternate with excerpts from Straitley’s 2006 diary. With Scheherazade-like skill, she tells Straitley her tale, teasing out the story over the coming weeks. They tell Straitley, who takes the matter to Rebecca, but he senses that she already knows about the body. At the building site of the new sports hall, four of Latin master Roy Straitley’s students see what might be a body, partially submerged in a muddy sinkhole. Under Rebecca’s reign, girls have been admitted and change is in the air. Oswald’s was a bastion of male entitlement. Oswald’s (after 2016’s Different Class), becomes the first female head in the Yorkshire school’s 500-year history. In 2006, Rebecca Buckfast, the protagonist of Harris’s enthralling third thriller set at St.
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