Etiquette & Espionage (Finishing School)

From the bestselling author of the Parasol Protectorate series In an alternate England of 1851 spirited 14 year old Sophronia is enrolled in a finishing school where she is surprised to learn lessons include not only the fine arts of dance dress and etiquette but also diversion deceit and espionage 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 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 the 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 Set in the same world as the Parasol Protectorate this YA series debut is filled with all the saucy adventure and droll humor Gail s legions of fans have come to adore