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.
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9781907411588
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 223 g
Dimensions: 196 x 130 x 24 mm
. . . cleverly Victorian methods of espionage, witty banter, lighthearted silliness, and a ship full of intriguingly quirky people. - Booklist, starred review
This genre-blender will introduce fans of Ally Carter's Gallagher Girls and Jennifer Lynn Barnes The Squad to a world of mechanical maids and flying machines, while bringing a spy-school romp to readers of the weightier worlds of Cassandra Clare and Scott Westerfeld. - Kirkus, starred review
Carriger deploys laugh-out-loud bon mots on nearly every page . . . in a sparkling start to the Finishing School series. - Publishers Weekly, starred review
Readers will love the well-developed characters and the quirky charm imbued into every page, and will eagerly await the sequel! - Romantic Times
I adored Gail Carriger's adult series, The Parasol Protectorate, and her first foray into teen fiction doesn't disappoint. It's a fun, witty read that's entertaining from start to finish. Set... More
I love Gail Carriger's 'Parasol Protectorate' series, so I was looking forward to this new 'Finishing School' series, which is set in the same world, 25 years earlier. Thankfully Ms Carriger... More
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