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Etiquette & Espionage
A Young Adult Fantasy Novel by Gail Carriger
Book 1 of the Finishing School Series
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Steampunk,
- Spy Academy,
- Boarding School,
- Comedy Fantasy,
- Girls School
This book is for you if you're into...
- Steampunk boarding schools with secret lessons in espionage
- Girls who prefer gadgets and adventure over tea and manners
- Humor that pokes fun at high society rules
This steampunk series debut set in the same world as the New York Times bestselling Parasol Protectorate is filled with all the saucy adventure and droll humor that Gail Carriger's legions of fans have come to adore.
Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than in 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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