num_pages: 160
description: College Sunrise is a somewhat louche and vaguely disreputable finishing school located, for now, 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 Rowland’s creative writing class comes seventeen-year-old Chris Wiley, a red-haired literary prodigy whose historical novel-in-progress, on Mary Queen of Scots, has already excited the interest of publishers. The inevitable result: keen envy, and a game of cat and mouse fraught with jealousy and attraction, both literary and sexual.
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: Penguin UK