The Finishing School

<p><b>'One of her funniest novels . . . Spark at her sharpest, her purest and her most merciful' ALI SMITH</b><br><br>In <i>The Finishing School</i> Muriel Spark is once again at her biting, satirical best. On the edge of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, a struggling would-be novelist and his wife run a finishing school of questionable reputation to keep the funds flowing. When a seventeen-year-old student's writing career begins to show great promise, tensions run high.<br><br> A keen portrait of devouring regret, psychological unravelling and the glittering promise of youth, <i>The Finishing School </i>is the perfect natural partner to Muriel Spark's most famous novel<i> The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.</i></p>