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Steampunk

Etiquette & espionage (Finishing School #1)

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  • 2013 first published
  • 296 pages
  • ★ 3.9 (8 ratings)
  • 9 editions
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Etiquette & espionage (Finishing School #1) is a 2013 steampunk novel by Gail Carriger. It takes readers to Great Britain in George VI, 1936–1952. Key subjects include etiquette, robots, boarding schools and schools.

Open Library readers give it an average of 3.9 out of 5 from 8 ratings, and 18 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 9 editions. It appeared on the New York Times Young Adult bestseller list in 2013.

It runs to roughly 296 pages — 5–6 hours of reading at an average pace.

About Etiquette & espionage (Finishing School #1)

Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than in 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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Awards & lists

  • 📰New York Times bestseller list — Young Adult, 2013

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

Era

  • George VI, 1936–1952

Subjects

  • Etiquette
  • Robots
  • Science fiction
  • Boarding schools
  • Schools
  • Espionage
  • Spies
  • School stories
  • Private schools
  • Spy stories
  • Steampunk fiction
  • Deception
  • Truthfulness and falsehood
  • Friendship
  • Intrigue
  • Children's fiction

Quick answers

Who wrote Etiquette & espionage (Finishing School #1)?

Etiquette & espionage (Finishing School #1) was written by Gail Carriger and first published in 2013.

What genre is Etiquette & espionage (Finishing School #1)?

It is usually shelved as Steampunk.

How long is Etiquette & espionage (Finishing School #1)?

The median edition has 296 pages, about 5–6 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Etiquette & espionage (Finishing School #1)?

Readers who like it often enjoy The Hangmans Revolution, Clockwork Prince and The Somnambulist.

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