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School for Manners, Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical romance
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- Paperback Dec 20, 2009 | 9781780333151 | RRP $31.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Jul 23, 2020 | 9781472132277 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
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- Paperback Dec 20, 2009 | 9781780333151 | RRP $31.99 Buy Now
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The fifth title in M.C. Beaton's Regency Romance series: School for Manners
'If you have a Wild, Unruly, or Undisciplined Daugher, two Ladies of Genteel Birth offer to Bring Out said Daughter and Refine what may have seemed Unrefinable. We can make the Best of the Worst'
When Amy and Effie Tribble, two charming but impoverished spinster sisters, lose out on an inheritance, they place this advertisement in The Morning Post and hire themselves out as professional chaperones. Vowing to prepare even the most difficult misses for marriage, the Tribble sisters will spend a London season on each client, educating them in their School for Manners.
Maria Kendall is seemingly a dream client - beautiful, impeccably mannered, effortlessly graceful and extremely well dowered. In short, she doesn't seem to need the Tribbles' help at all. But then the sisters meet her parents and realise that they do have a problem on their hands - not with the perfect Maria, but with her overweening, gauche and socially over-ambitious parents!
Praise for Animating Maria
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A delightful tale... romance fans are in for a treat - Booklist
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(M C Beaton) is the best of the Regency writers - Kirkus Reviews
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Nicely atmospheric, most notable for its gentle humour and adventurous spirit - Publishers Weekly
M.C. Beaton
M.C. Beaton (1936-2019) was the author of both the Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth series, as well as numerous Regency romances. Her books have been translated into seventeen languages and have sold more than twenty-two million copies worldwide. She is consistently the most borrowed UK adult author in British libraries, and her Agatha Raisin books have been turned into a TV series on Sky.
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