'The Finishing School' (2004).
'The Finishing School' is Muriel Spark's final novel.
It follows a homicidal teenage literary prodigy, an inept and jealous creative writing tutor, and a formidable heroine whose lessons on decorum feature some of Spark's funniest writing.
A savagely hilarious dissection of the posturing artist, for Scottish author Ali Smith 'it is Spark at her sharpest, her purest and her most merciful'.