The Finishing School Condition:Very Good Writing with remarkable insight and

Writing with remarkable insight and narrative flair

communities

Ranging from the raucous to the romantic

a friend to the pigeon who visits his balcony

exposes the logical fallacies and even some of the dubious tactics employed

The Finishing School Condition:Very Good Writing with remarkable insight and'One of her funniest novels . . . Spark at her sharpest, her purest and her most merciful' ALI SMITHIn The Finishing School 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 begin to run high.