Agent: Michael Carlisle, InkWell Management. This spectacular feat of storytelling will seduce the reader from page one. It is a tale of the horrible things children do to each other and of the horrible things adults do to them. It’s a fantastic tale of bloody crimes and gruesome urban folklore. Harris keeps the suspense high all the way to the exhilarating ending. Now, if you just want a scary story, haunted by the creepy plumbing in life, well, A Narrow Door is that book also. 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. As the new regime takes on the old guard, the ground shifts. Under Rebecca’s reign, girls have been admitted and change is in the air. Barely forty, she is just starting to reap the harvest of her ambition. 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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