* "Carriger deploys laugh-out-loud bon mots on nearly every page.Amid all the fun, the author works in commentary on race and class in a sparkling start to the Finishing School series."- Publishers Weekly, starred review, Praise for the New York Times bestselling Etiquette & Espionage : A Horn Book Summer Reading List Selection * "Carriger's YA debut brings her mix of Victorian paranormal steampunk and winning heroines to a whole new audience.with cleverly Victorian methods of espionage, witty banter, lighthearted silliness, and a ship full of intriguingly quirky people.", * "Carriger deploys laugh-out-loud bon mots on nearly every page.Amid all the fun, the author works in commentary on race and class in a sparkling start to the Finishing School series.", Praise for Etiquette & Espionage : * "Carriger's YA debut brings her mix of Victorian paranormal steampunk and winning heroines to a whole new audience.with cleverly Victorian methods of espionage, witty banter, lighthearted silliness, and a ship full of intriguingly quirky people.", * "Carriger's leading lady is a strong, independent role model for female readers. Sophronia and her friends are in for a rousing first year's education. 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. At Mademoiselle Geraldine's, young ladies learn to finish.everything.
But Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what her mother might have hoped. So she enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. 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.
Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. 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.
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