The Finishing School (Paperback)

from lucybrown

The Finishing School is cellophane thin volume of cellophane sensibilities and cellophane merit. Here is a work of airy, meretricious smuggery with no plenty of surface fireworks but no inner spark, which is to say no heart.

from lucybrown

The Finishing School is cellophane thin volume of cellophane sensibilities and cellophane merit. Here is a work of airy, meretricious smuggery with no plenty of surface fireworks but no inner spark, which is to say no heart.

from lucybrown

The Finishing School is cellophane thin volume of cellophane sensibilities and cellophane merit. Here is a work of airy, meretricious smuggery with no plenty of surface fireworks but no inner spark, which is to say no heart.

from nocto

Little more than a short story really. And while short stories have a habit of driving me bananas, possibly because they tend to come in books containing one good yarn and ten substandard ones, I enjoyed this standalone one. It's about the symbiotic relationship between aspiring novelist Rowland,...

from miketroll

A delicious little book! Light, fizzy, impish fun. Muriel Spark has a sublime writing gift, the ability to paint an entire scene in a few well chosen words. And in the art of gentle irony she is a supreme master (mistress?).