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The sweetness at the bottom of the pie
The sweetness at the bottom of the pie






the sweetness at the bottom of the pie the sweetness at the bottom of the pie

My only hesitation had been that the eleven year old heroine might be a bit childish, but I was very surprised to discover that I liked the intelligent tomboyish Flavia immensely. I bought this just yesterday looking for something light and fun to listen to and I was not disappointed. Of this much the girl is sure: Her father is innocent of murder - but protecting her and her sisters from something even worse.Īn enthralling mystery, a piercing depiction of class and society, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a masterfully told tale of deceptions - and a rich literary delight.Ī little slice of the English countryside

the sweetness at the bottom of the pie the sweetness at the bottom of the pie

Now Flavia is armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together, to examine new suspects, and begin a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself. And in a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an astounding story - of a schoolboy friendship turned ugly, of a priceless object that vanished in a bizarre and brazen act of thievery, of a Latin teacher who flung himself to his death from the school’s tower 30 years before. Soon her father, a man raising his three daughters alone, is seized, accused of murder. To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of science: Full of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life". “I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn’t. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. It is the summer of 1950 - and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia’s family calls home. In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison.








The sweetness at the bottom of the pie