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. 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. kept me enthralled till the final pages' CHRIS WHITAKER 'A clever chess game of repressed fears, power struggles, secrets and lies' LUCY ATKINS 'A complex, chilling mystery full of shifting truths and dark corners where the unburied past lies in wait' TAMMY COHEN 'A dark and richly enjoyable novel that already feels like a classic' ELLY GRIFFITHS 'Irresistibly readable, dark and brilliant with a masterful emotional punch' CATRIONA WARD * * * * * Now I'm in charge, the gates are my gates. (Jan.Your favourite authors have been gripped by this electric psychological thriller! 'A dark world of emotional complexity and betrayal, where twist follows twist and nothing is what it seems' ALEX MICHAELIDES 'Exhilarating, addictive, fierce' BRIDGET COLLINS 'A psychological thriller you can't put down and an antiheroine you won't forget' HARLAN COBEN 'Dark, Gothic, and propulsively readable - past secrets and present discoveries entangle in an intricately crafted conclusion' RUTH WARE 'Engrossing, cunning, sharp, sinister. Agent: Michael Carlisle, InkWell Management. This spectacular feat of storytelling will seduce the reader from page one.
Harris keeps the suspense high all the way to the exhilarating ending. Rebecca’s account of the devastating effects that her older brother’s disappearance had on her family, and events that subsequently took place in 1989 when she was a substitute teacher at his grammar school, alternate with excerpts from Straitley’s 2006 diary. With Scheherazade-like skill, she tells Straitley her tale, teasing out the story over the coming weeks. They tell Straitley, who takes the matter to Rebecca, but he senses that she already knows about the body.
At the building site of the new sports hall, four of Latin master Roy Straitley’s students see what might be a body, partially submerged in a muddy sinkhole. Under Rebecca’s reign, girls have been admitted and change is in the air. Oswald’s was a bastion of male entitlement. Oswald’s (after 2016’s Different Class), becomes the first female head in the Yorkshire school’s 500-year history. In 2006, Rebecca Buckfast, the protagonist of Harris’s enthralling third thriller set at St.
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