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"A complex, dark and gripping crime novel. Marshall writes with insight and humanity." Thomas Waugh
Stephen Lord is one of the good guys. The Headteacher at Rapton Community High School, he believes in justice and second chances.
Dean Bywater believes in justice too. Fresh out of prison and seeking retribution for a tragedy rooted in his past, he returns to Rapton to find his fifteen year old nephew Callum torn between pursuing a career in the army and following a life of crime.
Meanwhile, A* student Todd is carrying a burden he cannot share even with his sympathetic form tutor, new recruit Leigh Summers.
As the new school year begins, one small act of cruelty committed by Callum's gang leads Dean to make some disturbing connections. And Todd's discovery of the truth about his own past involves them all in violence, murder and the revelation of a terrible secret.
Recommended reading for fans of Belinda Bauer, Sharon Bolton and Angela Marsons.
Catherine Marshall was born in Birmingham and studied Literature and Theatre at North Cheshire College. She began writing at the age of eleven and sold her first short stories to Jackie magazine while she was still a student. As well as contributing short stories to a variety of magazines, she has written and published two romantic novels. Catherine is also the author of Masquerade and Still Water. She is married with two children and lives in Lancashire.
Catherine Marshall
Catherine Marshall is the William Eaves Distinguished Professor Emerita of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After completing her PhD, she served on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania and at Vanderbilt University before settling as professor at North Carolina. The ongoing goal of her teaching and research has been to use an interdisciplinary approach to analyze the cultures of schools, state policy cultures, gender issues, and social justice issues. She has published extensively on the politics of education, qualitative methodology, women's access to careers, and socialization, language, and values in educational administration.
Marshall's honors include the Campbell Award for Lifetime Intellectual Contributions to the Field, given by the Politics of Education Association (2009); the University Council for Educational Administration's Campbell Award for Lifetime Achievement and Contributions to Educational Administration (2008); the American Educational Research Association's (AERA) Willystine Goodsell Award for her scholarship, activism, and community building on behalf of women and education (2004); and a Ford Foundation grant for Social Justice Leadership (2002). In the American Educational Association, she was elected to head the Politics and Policy Division, and she also created an AERA Special Interest Group called Leadership for Social Justice. Marshall is the author or editor of numerous other books. These include Activist Educators: Breaking Past Limits; Culture and Education Policy in the American States; The Assistant Principal: Leadership Choices and Challenges; The New Politics of Gender and Race; and Feminist Critical Policy Analysis. This book's origin came early in her scholarly career, while conducting qualitative research on policy and teaching literally hundreds of doctoral students how to adopt and adapt the qualitative approach into workable proposals. She recognized a need and began to develop this book.More by Catherine Marshall
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