num_pages: 158
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: Rowland Mahler, Chris Wiley, Nina Mahler
genres: Fiction, Contemporary, British Literature, Scotland, Womens, Literary Fiction, Female Authors, Literature, Novels, Audiobook
ratings_count: 1668
places: Switzerland
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Premio Elba
publisher: VIKIN