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Etiquette and Espionage
- Finishing School, Book 1
- Narrated by: Moira Quirk
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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Summary
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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- susan
- 08-12-13
Great story, well read
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).
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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.
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- Richard
- 07-04-13
A great start to a new series
As a fan of the Parasol protectorate books, I was sceptical about a new series by Gail Carriger for younger readers/listeners. It took a little bit of time to get into 'Etiquette and Espionage: Finishing School, Book 1' and a little more to get used to the reader, Moira Quirk. Once I got past the reader and interested in the characters I was hooked. Gail Carriger certainly knows how to tell a story with excitement, humour, colour and most importantly style. This is a great start to a new series and I for one can't wait till 'Curtsies & Conspiracies: Finishing School, Book 2' Roll on November.
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- Mandy Skeels
- 10-08-17
Brilliant book
Absolutely loved it. The narrator was perfect. Ms Carriger's books always entertain! Can't wait to listen to the second one now.
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- A. J. Bailey
- 09-06-17
Brilliant & enthralling
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, the story is well written, great characters and it kept me entertained until the very end.
Off to start the 2nd book in the series
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- Lolah
- 04-05-17
Excellently written, brilliantly performed and a real laugh!
An excellent book, full of action, adventure, and school antics. With a finishing school on a giant floating airship, a vampire and werewolf teacher, and all sorts of steampunk trimmings (not to mention the spy & assassin training!), this book is a great twist on typical Victorian life at a finishing school, excellently written, brilliantly performed and a real laugh. Can't wait to listen to the rest of the series!
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- mrs karen m cross
- 24-04-16
Charming
Unusual reader but after you get used to it I found it very charming, with a desire to know what happens next.
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- Eva
- 07-03-24
Well done
Interesting storyline, believable motivation for the characters (something I often find lacking in books) and nicely narrated. I recommend this book!
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- Miss MC
- 19-01-24
a series I come back to time and time again
I loved everything about this series and was hooked after the first book! I recommend thins reading go all girls in my care(and friends) all the time and there all come back with a l9ve of different characters
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- Ann
- 26-09-23
Entertaining
An easy to listen to fun story with a steampunk theme. Would definitely be suitable for young teens.
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- Michael Toates
- 23-09-22
Finishing School
This was just so much fun. I wasn't familiar with the author or the narrator who was excellent.
Book two in this series has already been purchased.
I think I will very happily listen to anything by this author with this narrator, so it looks like I have plenty of listening ahead for me!
My only "complaint" is the image doesn't really reflect the substance of the book. The picture used looks a lot more dark and adult than the light and youthful story I listened to.
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