Etiquette and Espionage: Number 1 in series

· Hachette UK
4.6
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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.

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. Temminnick 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.

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4.6
22 reviews
Debbie Chambers
September 21, 2022
I loved the Victorian era steampunk aesthetic. The addition of a teaching werewolf and vampire were a gently executed but wonderful addition. I almost choked with laughter at the description of the antics at the ball. Overall the story is funny. The main character is beautifully constructed and her comrades suitability supportive yet flawed. I loved this book and look forward to reading the next.
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Julia Tryphina Weiss
October 15, 2016
...about a girl entering a very special finishing school. I love it! Can't wait to read the other books of this series.
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About the author

Gail Carriger began writing in order to cope with being raised in obscurity by an expatriate Brit and an incurable curmudgeon. She escaped small town life and inadvertently acquired several degrees in Higher Learning.

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