When I read A Narrow Door I didn’t realise that it was the third book in the Malbry series featuring St Oswalds, following on from Gentleman and Players and A Different Class which explained a couple of queries I had but in fact it reads well as a stand-alone. The girls represented new money and a chance to recover the school’s reputation after an unfortunate incident the year before. This psychological thriller has two narrators: Ms Rebecca Buckfast and Mr Roy Straightly – respectively the new Headteacher (always referred to as Headmaster by Straightly) and Classics teacher at St Oswald’s, previously an independent grammar school for boys now an academy which includes girls. It is beautifully written with a plot which enthrals, is creepy and sinister with a tension that has you holding your breath as layer upon layer of secrets, lies and intrigues are unravelled.
A Narrow Door is, quite simply, practically perfect.
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