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2386. Etiquette & Espionage
By Gail Carriger
Published February 5th 2013 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Etiquette & Espionage is the first book in Gail Carriger's Finishing School series.
Book cover description:
It's one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It's quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to Finishing School.
Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper manners, and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. So she enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality.
But Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what her mother might have hoped. At Mademoiselle Geraldine's, young ladies learn to finish...everything. Certainly, they learn the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but they also learn to deal out death, diversion, and espionage, in the politest possible ways, of course. Sophronia and her friends are in for a rousing first year's education.
Set in the same world as the Parasol Protectorate, this YA series debut is filled with all the saucy adventure and droll humor Gail Carriger's legions of fans have come to adore.
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See Also
1027. Gail Carriger
1028. Soulless
1029. Changeless
1030. Blameless
1031. Heartless
1032. Timeless
2387. Curtsies & Conspiracies
Collection Tags
Novel
2386. Etiquette & Espionage
By Gail Carriger
Published February 5th 2013 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Etiquette & Espionage is the first book in Gail Carriger's Finishing School series.
Book cover description:
It's one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It's quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to Finishing School.
Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper manners, and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. So she enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality.
But Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what her mother might have hoped. At Mademoiselle Geraldine's, young ladies learn to finish...everything. Certainly, they learn the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but they also learn to deal out death, diversion, and espionage, in the politest possible ways, of course. Sophronia and her friends are in for a rousing first year's education.
Set in the same world as the Parasol Protectorate, this YA series debut is filled with all the saucy adventure and droll humor Gail Carriger's legions of fans have come to adore.
Gift Shop
See Also
1027. Gail Carriger
1028. Soulless
1029. Changeless
1030. Blameless
1031. Heartless
1032. Timeless
2387. Curtsies & Conspiracies
Collection Tags
Novel
