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Etiquette and Espionage

Finishing School, Book 1

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Etiquette and Espionage

By: Gail Carriger
Narrated by: Moira Quirk
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Summary

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. 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.

©2013 Tofa Borregaard (P)2013 Hachette Audio Fantasy Fiction Science Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy Steampunk
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Unusual reader but after you get used to it I found it very charming, with a desire to know what happens next.

Charming

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An excellent book, full of action, adventure, and school antics. With a finishing school on a giant floating airship, a vampire and werewolf teacher, and all sorts of steampunk trimmings (not to mention the spy & assassin training!), this book is a great twist on typical Victorian life at a finishing school, excellently written, brilliantly performed and a real laugh. Can't wait to listen to the rest of the series!

Excellently written, brilliantly performed and a real laugh!

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as much fun as you would hope for would highly recommend blank blank blank blank

a revelation well worth listening

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The first book in the series. Definitely worth a read if you like the Harry Potter books. Great start to the series, leaves you wanting to know what happens next. Enjoyable for both young people and adults. Give it a go, you won't regret it.

Excellent Story

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I loved everything about this series and was hooked after the first book! I recommend thins reading go all girls in my care(and friends) all the time and there all come back with a l9ve of different characters

a series I come back to time and time again

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