Etiquette  Espionage, Gail Carriger
Etiquette  Espionage, Gail Carriger
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Etiquette & Espionage

Author: Gail Carriger

Narrator: Moira Quirk

Unabridged: 8 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/05/2013


Synopsis

This young adult 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 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 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Maja (The Nocturnal Library) on February 23, 2013

2.5 stars, rounded up because I'm feeling particularly generous today. Before any of you start plotting my painful and untimely death, I should point out that I’m a big fan of Ms. Carriger’s previous work. The Parasol Protectorate series is a favorite of mine, despite losing some steam in the later......more

Goodreads review by Liz on July 29, 2015

Fun! Feminism! Girliness! I would definitely recommend the audiobook as the narration is wonderful.......more

Goodreads review by Zoe on August 31, 2023

Vampires, werewolves, boarding schools, perfect etiquette flouted in favour of rule breaking, and the fine art of finishing others? Everything about this book is absolute perfection, tbh. The audiobook is amazing as well! I read this for the first time in 2015, I think it was, and I fall in love with......more

Goodreads review by Heidi on May 31, 2017

A cute, young adult book with a steampunk theme that takes place at a "finishing" school which isn't about etiquette at all. I made the mistake of reading this without realizing that it was based in a world from another series of books. I'm guessing that I would have enjoyed it more if I had read the......more

Goodreads review by Madison on August 12, 2020

Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger 1st book in the Finishing School series. 1st in the timeline of all series per author list online. YA historical steampunk. Fourteen-year old Sophronia is sent to finishing school to be a lady. She’s learning proper diversion, deceit, espionage and the poisons t......more