From the prize-winning No.1 bestselling author Joanne Harris comes an explosive psychological thriller about a woman who is intent on tearing apart the elite world that tried to hold her back . . . piece by piece.
Now I'm in charge, the gates are my gates. The rules are my rules. It's an incendiary moment for St Oswald's school. For the first time in its history, a headmistress is in power, the gates opening to girls.
Rebecca Buckfast has spilled blood to reach this position. Barely forty, she is just starting to reap the harvest of her ambition. As the new regime takes on the old guard, the ground shifts. And with it, the remains of a body are discovered.
But Rebecca is here to make her mark. She'll bury the past so deep it will evade even her own memory, just like she has done before. After all...
Fiction: general and literary
Paperback
Joanne Harris
448 pages
H: 232mm W: 150mm Spine: 36mm
Weight: 540 grams