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The Finishing School (2017)

por Joanna Goodman

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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 Societyâ??a secret club banned years before their arrival at the schoolâ??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 a
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4.5 stars. Wow, I was not expecting those twists. I think it helps that I didn't read the synopsis of this book before going into it. All I knew was that it was a mystery set at a boarding school, and a former client of mine recommended it to me. I did read the synopsis after I finished, and I think it gives a little too much away. I would have seen one of the twists coming if I had read the synopsis first, so I'm glad I didn't. I recommend going into this blind.

We follow the POV of Kersti, the main character, during 2 different times in her life. One when she was a teenager, living at a boarding school, and the other almost two decades later when she's married and trying to start a family. When Kersti was a teen at the Lycee boarding school, there was an accident involving her best friend, Cressida. Cressida fell off a fourth story balcony and suffered permanent injuries. Now years later, Kersti gets a letter from another friend of theirs that makes her question what she knows about that night. Did Cressida try to commit suicide? Was she pushed? Was it really an accident? Kersti decides it time for her to find out the truth.

This was really good, and I did not want to put it down. Like I said, I was not expecting this book to go where it did. The mystery was great and kept me on the edge of my seat trying to figure out what happened. Kersti kind of annoyed me at times, especially when she kept acting like a stupid teenage girl, even though she's a grown adult now. She did grow a lot towards the end, however, so that's good. I didn't like Cressida's character either at first, but the more I found out about her past and understood her, the more I felt bad for her. The ending felt just a little too quick, and I wanted more from the end, but overall, I enjoyed this one a lot.


CW: sexual abuse and suicidal characters ( )
  VanessaMarieBooks | Dec 10, 2023 |
This mystery which flips between the past and present reads like an abridged version of what could have been a good book. The mystery part of the story that takes place in the past in a Swiss boarding school is interesting. The detective part of the story that takes place in the present is not. The main character (detective) is dealing with infertility issues and has a self-identity issue related to her family and ethnicity. It's hard to know how much of this is the author's issue or if it's meant to give some depth to the character. Either way, I found it distracting and mostly irrelevant to the good part of the story. The dialogue between the character and her husband never strikes me as realistic. They go from lovey-dovey to full out argument and silence with trite dialogue. (It is totally possible that the dialogue issue is cultural, but I don't know.) Anyway, I didn't like the present-day story, not just for the relationship issues but also for how the protagonist hops around on a plane at a moment's notice (after her husband complains about money) and visits all the people she perceives as the key witnesses and gets them to readily admit to deep secrets or info. Of course, she misses the most important witnesses until the very end when she risks her life a la Nancy Drew.
If the book was just about the finishing school story in a linear timeline, fleshed out about that world, and THEN in a "part 2" went into the future to solve the mystery without the personal issues, I might have enjoyed the book more. Maybe.
Quick read, okay mystery (some obvious clues), mediocre results. ( )
  LDVoorberg | Nov 22, 2020 |
Loved it totally. ( )
  ClairePoussard | Aug 8, 2019 |
I was thinking I could guess what was going to happen but although I was somewhat close the ending was still a surprise. Goodman does the same thing in her newer novel---going back and forth in time. This was a somewhat complicated story and Goodman pulls so many characters into the story that she manages to provide enough detail about that she amazes me. How can you write with so many twists and turns and keep it all straight?? Whew! ( )
  nyiper | Apr 3, 2018 |
The Lycée is celebrating its 100th anniversary and not only has Kersti Kuusk been invited back to the elite boarding school in Switzerland where she spent four years of her life, she has been selected as one of their "One Hundred Women of the Lycée." But for Kersti this opens up an old wound. Almost twenty years ago Kersti's best friend, Cressida, fell from her fourth-floor balcony just before graduation. This was quickly deemed an accident and the whole thing was over and done with before any publicity. But Kersti can't help but dig around especially with the anniversary coming up and after receiving a letter from an old friend of theirs from Lycée. Kersti never forgot Cressida's obsession with a secret club that was banned years before their arrival, a secret club that had two of its members expelled from the school - something that had never happened before or since. Kersti is determined to get answers about the club and about what happened to her best friend that night long ago.

I could not get enough of this book! I love reading about boarding schools. The chapters go back and forth between past and present and I did enjoy both, but there's always something about the past that makes me like it just a little bit more. I loved the setting - the beautiful mountains, the crisp air, the light powdery snow. I liked the twists and turns, the friendships and the suspense. ( )
  jenn88 | Dec 30, 2017 |
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Fiction. Literature. Thriller. HTML:

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 Societyâ??a secret club banned years before their arrival at the schoolâ??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 a

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