description: College Sunrise is a vaguely disreputable finishing school in Lausanne, Switzerland. Rowland Mahler and his wife, Nina, run the school as a way to support themselves while he works, somewhat falteringly, on his novel. Into his creative writing class comes seventeen-year-old Chris Wiley, a literary prodigy whose historical novel-in-progress on Mary Queen of Scots and the murder of her husband Lord Darnley has already excited the interest of publishers. The inevitable results are keen envy and a game of cat and mouse not free of sexual jealousy and attraction. Nobody writing has a keener instinct than Muriel Spark for hypocrisy, self-delusion, and moral ambiguity, or a more deliciously satirical eye. The Finishing School is certain to be another Spark landmark.
language: English
title: The Finishing School
titlecomplete: The Finishing School
characters: Chris Wiley, Nina Mahler, Rowland Mahler
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Scotland, Womens, Female Authors, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 1670
places: Switzerland
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Premio Elba
publisher: Blackstone Publishing