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Within this suspenseful, provocative book of friendship, secrets, and deceit, a successful writer results to her top notch Swiss boarding school to access the bottom of any tragic incident that occurred while she was a student 20 years previously. How far will you go to uncover the truth? One spring evening in 1998, the beautiful Cressida Strauss plunges from a fourth-floor balcony at the Lycée Internationale Suisse with catastrophic outcomes. Loath to pull negative publicity to the institution, a bastion of European riches and glamour, officers quickly dismiss the incident as a major accident, but questions remain. Was it a suicide look at? Or was Cressida pushed? It was no solution that she experienced a selfish streak and experienced earned as much foes as allies in her tenure at the institution. For her best ally, scholarship pupil Kersti Kuusk, the lingering questions adjoining Cressida's fall continue to nag long after she leaves the Lycée. Kersti marries and becomes a best-selling writer but never can stop wanting to know about Cressida's obsession with the Helvetian Modern culture - a top secret club banned years before their appearance at the institution - and a set of its members who had been expelled. When Kersti is invited as a guest to the Lycée's 100th Wedding anniversary, she starts probing the cover-up, unearthing a frightening underbelly of lies and misuse at the exclusive establishment. And in a single portentous moment in time, Kersti makes a decision that will hook up her to Cressida forever and improve the stakes dangerously saturated in her own desire to resolve the unknown and redeem her past. As ingenious as it is powerful, The Finishing Institution offers a riveting glimpse into a privileged, rarefied world where nothing is as it appears.
