Name: The Finishing School: A Novel
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Author: Goodman, Joanna
ISBN: 9780062465580

Type

Physical Book

Author

Joanna Goodman

Publisher

Harper Paperbacks

Year

2017

Language

English

Pages

352

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 13.5 x 2.0 cm

Weight

0.28 kg.

ISBN13

9780062465580

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Finishing School: A Novel "

In this suspenseful, provocative novel of friendship, secrets, and deceit, a successful writer returns to her elite Swiss boarding school to get to the bottom of a tragic accident that took place while she was a student twenty years earlier.How far would you go to uncover the truth?One spring night in 1998 the beautiful Cressida Strauss plunges from a fourth-floor balcony at the Lycée Internationale Suisse with catastrophic consequences. Loath to draw negative publicity to the school, a bastion of European wealth and glamour, officials quickly dismiss the incident as an accident, but questions remain: Was it a suicide attempt? Or was Cressida pushed? It was no secret that she had a selfish streak and had earned as many enemies as allies in her tenure at the school. For her best friend, scholarship student Kersti Kuusk, the lingering questions surrounding Cressida's fall continue to nag long after she leaves the Lycée.Kersti marries and becomes a bestselling writer, but never stops wondering about Cressida's obsession with the Helvetian Society--a secret club banned years before their arrival at the school--and a pair of its members who were expelled. When Kersti is invited as a guest to the Lycée's 100th Anniversary, she begins probing the cover-up, unearthing a frightening underbelly of lies and abuse at the prestigious establishment. And in one portentous moment, Kersti makes a decision that will connect her to Cressida forever and raise the stakes dangerously high in her own desire to solve the mystery and redeem her past.An unputdownable read as clever as it is compelling, The Finishing School offers a riveting glimpse into a privileged, rarefied world in which nothing is as it appears.

Joanna Goodman

(Author)

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Born in Montreal on May 21, 1969, Joanna Goodman is the author of five novels, some of them bestsellers. She lives in Toronto with her husband and children. She owns the clothing company Au Lit Fine Linens.

Her texts have appeared in publications such as The Fiddlehead or The New Quarterly. Her narrative draws from authors like Margaret Atwood, Meg Wolitzer, John Irving, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Alice Munro, or Jonathan Franzen.

Her first work translated into Spanish was The Home for Unwanted Girls, a novel inspired by true events that follows the lives of Maggie and Elodie, a mother and daughter separated by their circumstances. The Swiss Boarding School and The Forgotten Daughter have also been published in our language.

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