The Strawberry Thief

Rebecca Price is the main heroine of Harris’s gripping novel set in the “St. Oswald’s” school. For the first time in 500 years, a woman becomes the school’s director; girls are admitted to study, and change is in the air. At the construction site for a new sports hall, four students of their Latin teacher, Roy Straightley, find human remains. Straightley is determined to find out everything, but he understands that Rebecca has known about the body for a long time. With the skill of Scheherazade, she tells Straightley her story over the course of several weeks. Rebecca recalls the destructive consequences of her older brother’s disappearance and the dark events that happened in 1989…