On My Wishlist is a weekly event highlighting a book that I really want to read. The book may be 20 years old, or the pub date may not be until next year, but either way I'm excited about it, and hopefully you will be too!
Etiquette & Espionage (Finishing School #1) by Gail Carriger
Original Pub. Date: February 5,
2013
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for
Young Readers
307 pages
Synopsis from Goodreads
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.
So, what do you think? Is it one that you'd like to add to your wish list? Have you already read it?
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