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

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Even her partner, Dominic, who genuinely cares for her, is himself part of the problem: he infantilizes and manipulates her whilst claiming to do what’s best for Becky and her daughter. However, when they appear at his door, it is to tell him bad news - a body found in building works on the school grounds. Whilst not a particular fan of Dark Academia as a genre, I very much enjoyed two of the previous books in this series – Gentlemen and Players and Different Class.

At first I found this worked well, and it was amusing to follow his struggles to adapt to the ‘new normal’. I read this was the third and last one of a series, but it can be read on its own and I think this makes the author very skilled. Harris managed to both romanticize academia, as readers tend to do, and shine a light on its underbelly.Once it gets going though, it’s a real page turner with twists and turns along the way, like all good psychological thrillers. Three of her books are sitting on my physical shelves: Chocolat, The Gospel of Loki, and The Testament of Loki. It was a perfectly paced, pitch perfect blend of mystery and academia that captivated me from the prologue through to the epilogue.

It is made clear that appointing a woman to this role is quite shocking in such a traditional setting. Set just a year after the events in 'A Different Class', we find Classics teacher Roy Straitley still trying to uphold tradition but fighting a losing battle - the new headmaster is a woman, the school has gone co-educational (it is now St Oswald's Academy) and a new leisure facility is being built on the grounds.Previously a school solely for boys, not even with any female staff, they are merging with Mulberry House meaning that they will now have female students and staff. 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. So many of them are not what they seem which keeps the reader constantly on their toes, and there is really no way to guess what is going to happen next.

Straitley again: He´s a wonderful character;it´s a letdown that the author had him brought down (killed, that is) by a two bit psycopath (however traumatised ,that´s what she is). I cannot go into details about the plot because I want you, reader, to experience what I feel was the perfect end to the series.

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 . This actually didn’t matter that I hadn’t read either of the previous books, I quite happily read this as a standalone.

This story is very intelligent, suspenseful, unpredictable, and hard to put down, in this case hard to pause the audio. Roy Straitley is approached by a group of his students, they think they have found a body in the school's grounds. I thought about talking more about the actual story, but it's too complex and skilfully woven to describe without giving too much away. The third book of the Malbry Series, A Narrow Door by Joanne Harris as brilliant as the other two with two differents; can shelf it as a feminist, and although the story is great, but it's a pity that Roy Straitley is a sub-character this time.It is while these changes are been implemented that a body is discovered and not only threatens the ongoing construction but also the secrets that are buried in the school.