Uncovered (6): Etiquette & Espionage

It’s one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It’s quite another to learn to curtsy and thrown a knife at the same time. Welcome to finishing school.

Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is the bane of her mother’s existence. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climing trees than proper etiquette at tea–and god forbid anyone see her attrocious 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 tearn 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 kind 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.

First in a four book YA series set 25 years before the Parasol Protectorate but in the same universe.

Girl spies = awesome sauce. This book won’t be released until Feb 2013 and I’ll be one of the first in line to get it. If an ARC happens to come your way and you want to send it my way, feel free. :) I’d love to hear what you think of this cover so please comment!

Gail Carriger can be found online at http://gailcarriger.com and follow her on Twitter @gailcarriger