The Finishing School, Joanna Goodman
The Finishing School, Joanna Goodman
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The Finishing School
A Novel

Author: Joanna Goodman

Narrator: Andi Arndt

Unabridged: 8 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 04/11/2017


Synopsis

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.

About Joanna Goodman

Joanna Goodman is the author of the bestselling novels The Forgotten Daughter, The Home for Unwanted Girls,and The Finishing School. Originally from Montreal, she now lives in Toronto with her husband and two children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lindsay L on October 22, 2018

4 stars! Gripping. Shocking. Haunting. Suspenseful. I read Joanna Goodman’s latest novel, The Home For Unwanted Girls, in August and absolutely adored it. When I was presented with the opportunity to go to a reading by Joanna Goodman (tonight – can’t wait!!!), I decided to pick up her previous book......more

Goodreads review by Kristy on March 19, 2017

It has been 20 years since Kersti Kuusk set foot on the grounds of the Lycée, the prestigious boarding school she attended as a teen. Kersti was a scholarship student from Canada at the elite school, and she left abruptly in her senior year, after her best friend, Cressida, fell from her balcony one......more

Goodreads review by Tammy ✨ on August 29, 2020

La novela está contada en dos tiempos. 1994 cuando Kersti, la protagonista, llega al internado suizo y conoce a su nueva compañera de habitación Cressida quien de inmediato se transforma en su mejor amiga, ya que se siente muy acogida y comprendida por ella. Y por otro lado tenemos el año 2015 cuand......more

Goodreads review by Sandra on March 16, 2020

4/5 “He visto las mejores mentes de mi generación destruidas por la locura…” El internado suizo ha sido un drama muy interesante con toques de thriller que me han mantenido pegada a sus páginas hasta el final. Muy recomendado, volveré a leer a esta autora. -Reseña completa: [URL not allowed]......more