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| Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
I've written about Gail Carriger's books before, and I just discovered (belatedly) that a new one came out in February.
And a new series to boot!
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.
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.
YA or not, this sounds like my kind of book! I may just have to download this to my Kindle this weekend and escape for a few hours.
ReplyDeleteI finished it last night and it's delightful! It's a great prequel to Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate series. I am now on the hunt for my own mechanimal dachshund I can name Bumbersnoot.
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