The gripping new psychological thriller from Joanne Harris to follow her bestselling Gentlemen & Players & Blueeyedboy Perfect for fans of Claire Mackintosh BA Paris Paula Hawkins & Tracy Chevalier ‘ Crime novel or literary novel? Categories really don’t matter; readers will find themselves comprehensively gripped’ Independent&A cracking psychological thriller& Good Housekeeping After thirty years at St Oswald’s Grammar in North Yorkshire Latin master Roy Straitley has seen all kinds of boys come & go – the clowns the rebels the underdogs & those he calls his Brodie boys But every so often there’s a boy who doesn’t fit the mould A troublemaker A boy capable of twisting everything around him A boy with hidden shadows inside With insolvency & academic failure looming a new broom has arrived at the venerable school bringing Powerpoint sharp suits & even sixth form girls to the dusty corridors But while Straitley does his sardonic best to resist this march to the future a shadow from his past is stirring A boy who even twenty years on haunts his teacher’s dreams A boy capable of bad things