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Etiquette & Espionage

by Gail Carriger

Finishing school, with a covert curriculum

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Finishing school, with a covert curriculum

Sophronia’s enrollment at Mademoiselle Geraldine’s begins as a lesson in becoming a proper lady, but the academy’s curriculum extends well beyond dance, dress, and etiquette. Its students are also taught espionage and other dangerous skills, placing social conventions alongside covert adventure. Set in a steampunk world, the story brings together a mechanically curious fourteen-year-old, a school with unexpected purposes, and the demands of polished manners. The premise makes etiquette part of the action rather than simply a marker of social behavior, while the academy provides the setting for Sophronia’s first year of education.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in steampunk fiction
  • Readers who enjoy stories combining school settings with espionage
  • Readers interested in young protagonists who challenge expectations around proper behavior

Themes

Etiquette and social expectationsEspionageEducation and independenceSteampunk adventure

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Book overview

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 had 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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