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

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Needless to say, as is to be expected from this author, the story that unfolds is beautifully and intelligently written.

She is an honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and in 2013 was awarded an MBE by the Queen. This is a recurring theme in a lot of my books: including how we see ourselves and portray ourselves to others, as well as how we see others, and how often we can be wrong.

I am discovering Joanne Harris with a different angle and am positively surprised how good she is when writing thriller/mystery.

A: About as much as I do with Straitley; I’m fond of them both, and more importantly, I find them both interesting; but it would be a mistake for anyone to feel that either is a self-portrait. The third novel in the Malbry trilogy, A Narrow Door is a sequel to Gentleman and Players (2005) and Different Class (2016). With each chapter Rebecca Buckfast sheds layer upon layer of her dark tale taking Roy and the reader into her dark tale. stars, as something was missing, also maybe a tiny amount of disappointment, just a little, with the ending.It sucked me in against my will, but now that I’ve been coughed out, I won’t be rereading this anytime soon. Her work is extremely diverse, covering aspects of magic realism, suspense, historical fiction, mythology and fantasy. Why do you think Straitley allows Rebecca to prevent him from going to the police, following the discovery of the body by the Gunderson Building?

I'm not sure if its because I haven't read the previous books in this series not realising that it was one or if for some reason I just didn't engage. However, I particularly enjoyed writing Rebecca because she is a rare example of a middle-aged woman protagonist in fiction, with all the nuance that entails. semelhança dos outros dois livros, a autora envolve-nos na história através de duas linhas temporais, 2006 e 1989, e ainda algumas recordações de 1971.If you’re a fan of crime fiction, or dark academia, or novels with a strong voice that never grates on your nerves, you should give this one a go. Two narrators are featured: Alex Kingston of Doctor Who fame; and Steven Pacey, who narrates Abercrombie’s First Law series and is one of my favorite audiobook narrators. Whilst not a particular fan of Dark Academia as a genre, I very much enjoyed two of the previous books in this series – Gentlemen and Players and Different Class. I feel like I’ve missed so much, and yet I’ve suddenly discovered a new-to-me author with over 20 novels in their backlist. 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.

Both Straitley and Rebecca are trying to repress something: whether either of them succeeds is for the reader to decide. The 'narrow door' of the title refers to how difficult it usually is for a woman to enter and rise up in the world of academia. It was a perfectly paced, pitch perfect blend of mystery and academia that captivated me from the prologue through to the epilogue. I couldn’t guess what was going to happen, so I kept turning the pages and eating up each bread crumb.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. All of my St Oswald’s stories are (very loosely) based on my experiences as a teacher in a boys’ grammar school in Yorkshire. Like the previous books, A NARROW DOOR is a kind of chess match between Straitley and his adversary – in this case, the new Head, Rebecca Buckfast.

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