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Head start

Judith Cutler

2016317 pagesabout 5–7 hours
2016
first published
  • 2016Allison & Busby, Limited · 317 pages · ENGISBN 9780749020705
  • 2017Allison & Busby, Limited · 352 pages · ENGISBN 9780749020804

With her abusive ex-husband in prison, Jane Cowan finally has the confidence to accept a new job: head teacher of the primary school in the Kentish village of Wrayford. But her new life is soon disrupted when a mysterious intruder breaks into her school, and then later when a child is badly hurt on the playground. Only Jane suspects that her fall was not accidental. Are the two incidents connected?

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