The Finishing Touch

The tweedy Miss Hetty Braid worships the lovely but selfish Miss Antonia Mount, her co-proprietor at the most exclusive finishing school on the French Riviera. The girls they teach are quite remarkable, though hardly in the sense of academic distinction. But trouble looms when Antonia announces that 'Royalty is coming.' The great day arrives, and though at first things go tolerably well, disaster springs from good intentions. This Faber Finds edition includes a 1987 introduction by Brigid Brophy and a new preface by Sir Peter Stothard. 'A wicked little entertainment... plaubly not meant for the moralists or naive.' Evening Standard 'An outrageously indelicate joke made... alles anzeigen expand_more

The tweedy Miss Hetty Braid worships the lovely but selfish Miss Antonia Mount, her co-proprietor at the most exclusive finishing school on the French Riviera. The girls they teach are quite remarkable, though hardly in the sense of academic distinction. But trouble looms when Antonia announces that 'Royalty is coming.' The great day arrives, and though at first things go tolerably well, disaster springs from good intentions.





This Faber Finds edition includes a 1987 introduction by Brigid Brophy and a new preface by Sir Peter Stothard.





'A wicked little entertainment... plaubly not meant for the moralists or naive.' Evening Standard





'An outrageously indelicate joke made in beautifully mannered prose.' Daily Herald





'Waspish and witty.' TLS



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  • Artikelnummer SW9780571304677110164
  • Autor find_in_page Brigid Brophy
  • Mit find_in_page Stig Abell
  • Autoreninformationen Brigid Brophy (1929-1995) was a prize-winning British novelist,… open_in_new Mehr erfahren
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  • Verlag find_in_page Faber & Faber
  • Seitenzahl 146
  • Veröffentlichung 15.08.2013
  • ISBN 9780571304677
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