Wednesday 10 October 2012

Waiting on Wednesday ~ Etiquette and Espionage


Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill @ Breaking the Spine which spotlight eagerly anticipated upcoming releases.


Title: Etiquette and Espionage
Author: Gail Carriger
Series: Finishing School #1
Publication date: 5 February 2013

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 the bane of her mother's existence. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper etiquette at tea--and god forbid anyone see her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. She enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality.

But little do Sophronia or her mother know that this is a school where ingenious young girls learn to finish, all right--but it's a different kind of finishing. Mademoiselle Geraldine's certainly trains young ladies in the finer arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but also in the other kinds of finishing: the fine arts of death, diversion, deceit, espionage, and the modern weaponries. Sophronia and her friends are going to have a rousing first year at school.

First in a four book YA series set 25 years before the Parasol Protectorate but in the same universe.

3 comments:

  1. Ooohhh this sounds intriguing! I've never heard of any novel like this before. Thanks for sharing!

    Here's my WoW

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  2. I know, it sounds very interesting!!! I enjoyed the Parasol Protectorate series which is set in the same world so I'm looking forward to this book :-)

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  3. This one sure has been popular this week! I'm still unsure if I will read it or not but it does sound interesting. Thanks for sharing! ^.^ If you would like to check out my Waiting On Wednesday you can do so here. :)

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