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

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In 1989, Rebecca was 5 years old and her brother, Conrad has been disappeared on their birthday, her whole life has been changed. If you enjoyed the previous novels, set at St Oswald's, then you should also find this an interesting addition to the story. Rebecca is now the head of St Oswald's, and the school is no longer a 'grammar school for boys' but an academy. 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. However, I will be going back and reading more of not only this series but the rest of Harris’s backlog.All of these books have at their heart the idea that the past controls what we do; shapes who we are, and cannot be hidden away for good. Both want to keep their secrets, Straitley in his misplaced loyalty to Eric and the School; Rebecca for reasons of her own, which are revealed as the narrative unfolds. That said I didn’t feel that it spoilt my enjoyment at all and worked perfectly good as a stand alone novel.

Es gana bieži saku, ka man netīk trilleri, bet man vienkārši netīk prasti trilleri, pif paf, nepatiesi apsūdzētais spiegs, blā blā blādī blā. As Rebecca tells of the disappearance of her 14-year-old brother, Conrad, when she was five years old, she is plumbing the depths of her own memories to tease out what could have happened to him. Eric was his dear friend but revelations about him have tainted how he remembers their relationship. 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 is currently engaged in a number of musical theatre projects as well as developing an original drama for television. Since it is five years since Different Class was published, readers may not be au fait with the essential background to A Narrow Door and its quirky characters. But around Chapter 11 when she started banging on again about the noises in the drain, it was time for me to bail.

Becky aims to demonstrate that Roy is wrong about woman, that her ambition will throw open these hallowed narrow doors wide by, shock, horror, admitting female students. The book can be read as a standalone, but if you need them, there are summaries of the previous books here. I had no idea this was the third book in a series until I had already read 10% of it, but it wasn’t to the story’s detriment. If you’re studying it as part of a reading group, here are a few resources and ideas to get you started.Note: I would suggest reading 'Gentlemen and Players' and 'Different Class' before reading this, the final, in the series. Of course, Freud would have had a lot to say about the tunnel as an image; in this case, it’s one of repression – the repression of memory, of sexuality, of feelings. 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? Rebecca: Despite the title, and the numerous and -very-tiring feminist rants, there´s no explanation as to how she "crossed" the narrow door. Joanne Harris is an Anglo-French author, whose books include fourteen novels, two cookbooks and many short stories.

I don’t see this quite as a supernatural thriller, although there are elements of that here – more as a psychological thriller, in which elements of the supernatural act as metaphors for altered mental states. It comes to a head in Mnemosyne (Goddess of Memory) often unreliable and into Asphodel, the land of the dead where through the distorted mirror of memory we get to Tartarus, the land of eternal darkness and oh boy, it is dark and breathtaking. Fortunately, despite having had a heart attack and being offered retirement, Classics master Roy Straitley is still in his post, determined that he will not be put out to pasture and is still teaching Latin to his boys - but, of course, he now has young girls to contend with.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. It was great to catch up once again with a character I felt I knew, Roy Straitley, his boys, colleagues and St Oswald’s School.