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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 botto. All too many people start a writing project with grand ambitions but reach a crisis of completion. How did vincent smith fall overboard from a container ship near the coast of mauritania, fathoms away from her former life as jonathan alkaitis pretend trophy wife. As a teenager, kersti attended a swanky swiss boarding school where she made close friends with a. Evendine court, was a finishing school for st james and later a cookery school, before closure in 1999. In this suspenseful, provocative novel of friendship, secrets. We have twenty three members of staff, split almost equally between male and female. As a teenager, kersti attended a swanky swiss boarding school where she made close friends with a group of wealthy girls.
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