A Narrow Door: The electric psychological thriller from the Sunday Times bestseller

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Es gana bieži saku, ka man netīk trilleri, bet man vienkārši netīk prasti trilleri, pif paf, nepatiesi apsūdzētais spiegs, blā blā blādī blā. Roy wants to know the truth, and Rebecca wants to tell: her brother's story, Conrad, the ghost who never left her family; as a young teacher in men's school; and a liar husband!

I will admit that the pace did slow a little in the middle but then picked up and the ever twisting turns were a surprising delight. Set just a year after the events in 'A Different Class', we find Classics teacher Roy Straitley still trying to uphold tradition but fighting a losing battle - the new headmaster is a woman, the school has gone co-educational (it is now St Oswald's Academy) and a new leisure facility is being built on the grounds. Taking his fears to Rebecca Buckfast, Straitley is talked out of reporting his suspicions to the police by the Head’s assurance that it is very unlikely to be a real body and that she will deal with the situation herself. At the end of the school year her teenage brother, Conrad, disappeared from his school – the neighbouring King Henry’s Grammar – never to be seen again. O final, confesso, apanhou-me completamente desprevenida, não só pela revelação mas também por algo que aconteceu e que me deixou algo triste e que representa o fim de um ciclo.

Straitley’s discovery of Eric’s secret life – a man he has known since childhood, and whom he thinks he knows – shakes him so profoundly that he allows himself to be manipulated into concealing a murder.

The book was well written, as Joanne Harris’s novels always are, but I just felt that the substance and plot did not live up to the promise of the style. I had a lot of fun with episodes like: the Banda machine; the file of pre-prepared lessons; the pep talk with the Head of Department; being mistaken for a boy because I was wearing trousers.It's over fifteen years since I read the first in the St Oswald's series; Gentlemen and Players and five years since I read the follow up; Different Class. p>Read about how we’ll protect and use your data in our Privacy Notice. Fast forward over 30 years and Rebecca Buckfast is the New new head of St Oswalds Academy, a title that has never been given to a woman in five hundred years. When Straitley is told that a body has been found in the school grounds, he is certain that Rebecca will deal with it. Three of her books are sitting on my physical shelves: Chocolat, The Gospel of Loki, and The Testament of Loki.

The story goes back and forth between the present time of 2006 at St Oswalds and Rebecca’s time as a supply teacher at King Henry’s in 1989.And the difference in tone between the Rebecca of her memories and the one telling her story to Straitley was fascinating.