She is the first ever woman Head of what has previously been a boys-only school. Buckfast is a new broom, having assumed the Headship after a period of turbulence. The book is structured as a sort-of dialogue between the new Head of the school, Rebecca Buckfast, and old-school (in every sense of the world) Classics teacher, Roy Straitley. I hadn't read the previous books (shame on me) but A Narrow Door works very well as a standalone thriller, while hinting at the background that has already been established and bringing back familiar characters. The first thing I should say about A Narrow Door is that it's the third part of a trilogy of psychological thrillers set in and around the same private grammar school, St Oswald's, and the town of Malbry. 'Becky was an only child, and yet she had a brother'. I'm grateful to the publisher for an advance e-copy of A Narrow Door via NetGalley to consider for review.
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