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Etiquette and Espionage

Finishing School, Book 1

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Etiquette and Espionage

By: Gail Carriger
Narrated by: Moira Quirk
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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 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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This is my go to book/ series whenever I cant decide what to read next, I have it in print, kindle and ofcourse Audible. It keeps a good pace so it is easy to keep your attention on, the characters all have different personalities and the way the voice actor portrays them it is very clear which character is speaking at the time.

An easy favorite

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A well written and well narrated book, with plenty of laughs and adventures along the way. A super book, I'm looking forward to the next in the series.

A good education.

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Great fun ! You quickly forget that the characters are so young. The unusual school setting makes for a perfect background. I look forward to reading the next in the series

Entertaining !

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Interesting storyline, believable motivation for the characters (something I often find lacking in books) and nicely narrated. I recommend this book!

Well done

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What did you like most about Etiquette and Espionage?

Etiquette & Espionage is an almost prequel to Gail Carriger's other books & the appearances of some of the characters from that series - in much younger incarnations - is a lot of fun and perhaps the easiest to explain part of what I liked about the book (without giving away any spoilers).

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

This is one of those books where when you have finished it you want to be back in the world so much that you start the book all over again just so that you don't have to go back to reality...I wish I was joking. I must have read & listened to it move than almost any other book.

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This is one of my mist listened to books on Audible, the narration is excellent & it is very soothing despite being action packed the whole way through.

Great story, well read

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