There are a number of time frames - mainly 1971 when Rebecca Price was 5 years old and her brother Connor disappeared 1989 when Rebecca becomes a Supply teacher at King Henry's Grammar School for Boys 2006 when Rebecca becomes the principal of St. However the structure of A NARROW DOOR, plus its length, also makes it a challenging read. If you look at the list below, you will see that it is some time since I read the previous book in the series, and I remember finding that a challenging read because of the distance between it and the previous title. The adversarial structure remains, but in this case, the relationship between the two opponents is more cordial – for some part of the journey, at least, their interests are aligned. Like the two previous books, A NARROW DOOR is written as a dialogue between two first-person narrators a kind of chess game between Roy Straitley (the White King) and in this case, Rebecca Price/Buckfast (The Black Queen). She'll bury the past so deep it will evade even her own memory, just like she has done before. And with it, the remains of a body are discovered.īut Rebecca is here to make her mark. As the new regime takes on the old guard, the ground shifts. Barely forty, she is just starting to reap the harvest of her ambition. Rebecca Buckfast has spilled blood to reach this position. For the first time in its history, a headmistress is in power, the gates opening to girls. It's an incendiary moment for St Oswald's school. Now I'm in charge, the gates are my gates. This edition published by Orion Books 2021
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