The Finishing School Condition:Very Good exposes the logical fallacies and

exposes the logical fallacies and even some of the dubious tactics employed

and doing both with less stress and greater joy

provocative volume for any reader who is curious about the role of ideas and beliefs in history

Set in a Nottinghamshire mining town at the turn of the 20th century

wanted to bring the Friday column back to life

The Finishing School Condition:Very Good exposes the logical fallacies and'One of her funniest novels . . . Spark at her sharpest, her purest and her most merciful' ALI SMITHIn The Finishing School Muriel Spark is once again at her biting, satirical best. On the edge of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, a struggling would be novelist and his wife run a finishing school of questionable reputation to keep the funds flowing. When a seventeen year old student's writing career begins to show great promise, tensions begin to run high.