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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.
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Fourteen year old Sophronia Temminick is the bane of her Mother’s existence. None of her other children put Mrs. Temminick through trials like Sophronia, who would rather be tinkering than learning to be a lady. In Victorian England a young lady must know how to curtsy, yet no one wants company to see Sophronia’s dreadful curtsy. Mrs. Temminick is determined to make a proper lady out of Sophronia and enrolls her in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality. Quickly, Sophronia realizes that this academy might be perfect for her rather odd pursuits. Oh she’s learning how to execute a proper curtsy and how to be a Lady, but she’s also learning the fine art of spying, intelligence gathering and how to disguise one’s true intentions. Sophronia makes some friends who help her in her new escapades and a few enemies too. I give Etiquette & Espionage 4 ½ ★s, this book is a quick, easy entertaining read, and Sophronia is quick thinking and courageous. This series is set in the same world as the Parasol Protectorate, Gail Carriger’s Adult Steampunk series which is also full of fun and cheek. I am looking forward to reading Curtsies & Conspiracies (Finishing School #2) which is slated for release November 5th, 2013.