Etiquette & Espionage

Etiquette & Espionage
Book 1
Author	Gail Carriger
Genre	Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction
Release Date	February 5, 2013
Series	Finishing School Series
Pages	307
Publisher	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Summary

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 does 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.

About

Etiquette & Espionage hit the New York Times Young Adult bestseller list at #9 on February 24, 2013.

Gail's fans created a Reading Guide and Vocabulary List for Etiquette & Espionage. Two free printable pdfs for teachers, librarians, any other interested parties. You can find them on Gail's website.

Chapter Titles

• Lesson One - The Start of Being Finished
• Lesson Two - Beware Flywaymen, for They Are Ill-dressed and Ill-mannered
• Lesson Three - How Not To Make Introductions
• Lesson Four - The Correct Configuration of a Finishing School
• Lesson Five - Never Hurl Garlic Mash at a Man with a Crossbow
• Lesson Six - The Real Meaning of Finishing
• Lesson Seven - The Proper Place for Sooties
• Lesson Eight - The Teaching Habits of Werewolves
• Lesson Nine - How Not to Flirt
• Lesson Ten - The Correct Way to Get Caught
• Lesson Eleven - On the Importance of Proper Dress
• Lesson Twelve - Proper Communication in Social Situations
• Lesson Thirteen - Attack of the Fan and Sprinkle
• Lesson Fourteen - On Intermingling the Classes
• Lesson Fifteen - Keeping Proper Records and How to Steal Them
• Lesson Sixteen - Breaking, Burgling, and a Proper Breakfast
• Lesson Seventeen - Conducting Oneself Properly at a Ball

Timeline

• The book takes place in October 1851

Links

• Etiquette & Espionage final cover, at Gail Carriger's blog