![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Most of the time, we try our best to keep them in the closet. It has some chillingly brilliant characterisation, and the twists and turns, keep the reader guessing (ok I did actually guess some things – but that added to it for me) Joanne Harris cleverly misdirects her readers – which makes for a wonderfully compelling read. This is an entirely different kind of novel, and in it Harris shows she is a master of the psychological thriller (a genre I generally don’t much like – but I loved this one), well written, superbly plotted, and with some pretty big themes. Harris is probably best known for ‘ Chocolat’ I loved that novel and the two which follow it. As a former educator herself, Joanne Harris understands schools and the people who inhabit them, and in this book, Harris recreates the atmosphere of a school steeped in tradition perfectly. ‘ Different Class’ – a psychological thriller, is perhaps not my usual bag – but I rather like stories set in schools – and I absolutely loved ‘ Gentlemen and Players’. I like Joanne Harris’s writing – I have actually read most of her novels. As the term where I work was drawing to an exhausting conclusion, I picked up Joanne Harris’s latest novel. ![]()
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