Etiquette & espionage

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    Etiquette and espionage

    Contributor:

    Quirk, Moira

    Résumé:

    Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is the bane of her mother's existence. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate that her daughter, who is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper etiquette, become a proper lady. She enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality. Little do they know that this is a school where ingenious young girls learn a different kind of finishing. Mademoiselle Geraldine's trains her young protégés in how to finish others: the fine art of death, diversion, deceit, espionage, and the modern weaponries.

    Subject(s): Fiction
    Original Publisher: [New York] , Hachette Book Group
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781619699199

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    1619699192

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Quirk, Moira

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Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is the bane of her mother's existence. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate that her daughter, who is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper etiquette, become a proper lady. She enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality. Little do they know that this is a school where ingenious young girls learn a different kind of finishing. Mademoiselle Geraldine's trains her young protégés in how to finish others: the fine art of death, diversion, deceit, espionage, and the modern weaponries.

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[New York]

Hachette Book Group

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