

* * * * * Praise for Joanne Harris's other books set in the St Oswald's world - which all read as standalone thrillers: 'A masterpiece of misdirection' Val McDermid 'Delivers an almighty twist. 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. 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. ‘A masterpiece of misdirection’ Val McDermid

Praise for Joanne Harris’s other books set in the St Oswald’s world:

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. It’s an incendiary moment for St Oswald’s school. Now I’m in charge, the gates are my gates. ‘A dark and richly enjoyable novel that already feels like a classic’ ELLY GRIFFITHS ‘Dark, Gothic, and propulsively readable’ RUTH WARE ‘A psychological thriller you can’t put down’ HARLAN COBEN ‘Exhilarating, addictive, fierce’ BRIDGET COLLINS ‘Twist follows twist and nothing is what it seems’ ALEX MICHAELIDES
