It could be a sketch in the sand but it takes the breath away. The Finishing School is a novella of the same length and it has the same ravishing economy and sureness of touch. It's a thriller ...

Check out an exclusive excerpt from the first book, Etiquette & Espionage, in which young Sophronia learns that her finishing school is teaching her to finish people off. Here’s the official ...

After this realisation, the "finishing" school begins to take on a more sombre ... emotion their rivalry generates to finish their books. It is Nina, who thought that Rowland could write a ...

The economy of means, precision of language and formal perfection on display in “The Finishing School” (Doubleday, 181 pages, $16.95), Dame Muriel’s 22nd novel, amply demonstrate her point.

Her bestselling book, “Etiquette” (1922), framed the ... The Institut Villa Pierrefeu—which claims to be the only traditional finishing school in Europe that is still operating—used ...

She set “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” in a Scottish girls day school, “The Abbess of Crewe” in a convent run like the C.I.A. and her last novel, “The Finishing School,” at a Swiss ...