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ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK - Rebecca Buckfast has had to do quite a lot to get to where she is now - the new Head of an old English public school which, for the first time in its long history, is admitting girls. She relates her past to Mr Straitley, the Classics Master; and he in turn writes in his diary what is happening over the course of the month she is paying him such attention.
His favourite students have come to him, having discovered a body with the prefect's badge of a rival school. Rebecca's brother, who attended that school, mysteriously disappeared more than thirty-five years prior, so it's natural that Mr Straitley thinks the body might be Conrad's... but as the reader learns, when Ms Buckfast has had to do much to get to where she is, it involves a murder or two.
A wonderfully compulsive read with a driven and fiercely independent narrator who is occasionally unreliable despite her protestations to truth-telling, for whom you might have some sympathy - afterall, she just wants girls to have the same chances to determine their destinies as boys have long been entitled to - even if her methods aren't quite conventional. There's also a rather satisfying touch at the end... Lindy Jones
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