Narrow Door

Joanne Harris returns us to the world of St. Oswald's and tells the story of Rebecca Price, the first woman to become a headteacher. She is determined to overthrow the old regime, and now both boys and girls are allowed... to be educated. But all plans collapse when human remains are discovered on the school grounds during construction work. Professor Roy Straightly intends to get to the bottom of it, but Rebecca day by day protects the secrets left in the past. This novel is a journey into the dark corners of the human mind, where memory, truth, and facts melt away like mirages. Straightly and Rebecca are desperately trying to hide part of their lives, but the past controls what we do, shapes us into who we are in the present, and nothing remains secret.