Secrets at St Bride's by Debbie Young

Secrets at St Bride's by Debbie Young

When Gemma Lamb takes a job at a quirky English girls' boarding school, she believes she's found the perfect escape route from her controlling boyfriend - until she discovers the rest of the staff are hiding sinister secrets:

• Hairnet, the eccentric headmistress who doesn't hold with academic qualifications
• Oriana Bliss, Head of Maths and master of disguise
• Joscelyn Spryke, the suspiciously rugged Head of PE
• Geography teacher Mavis Brook, surreptitiously selling off the library books
• Creepy night watchman Max Security, with his network of hidden tunnels

Even McPhee, the school cat, is leading a double life.

Tucked away in the school's beautiful private estate in the Cotswolds, can Gemma stay safe and build a new independent future?

With a little help from her new friends, including some worldly-wise pupils, she's going to give it her best shot.

Perfect for anyone who grew up hooked on Chalet School, Malory Towers, St Clare's and other classic school stories.

***Set in the same world as Debbie Young's popular Sophie Sayers Village Mysteries series and includes a little crossover. In the first book, Gemma pays a visit to Hector's House in Wendlebury Barrow and meets Sophie and Hector. ***

Debbie Young lives and writes in a small Gloucestershire village, which inspires and informs her novels, which are set in a rural Cotswolds environment and are full of mystery, mayhem, and humour. Sophie Sayers Village Mysteries (novels), Staffroom at St Bride's - School Shops for Adults (novels), and Tales from Wendlebury Barrow (fast reads of novelette or novella length) are her three established series. Secrets at St Bride's, one of her novels, was shortlisted for the Bookbrunch Selfies Awards for best independently published fiction in the UK in 2020.