EAN: 9780062465580

THE FINISHING SCHOOL - JOANNA GOODMAN KARTONIER...

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.

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