The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Alan Bradley

by Diane on April 4, 2010

Rating:  SterneSterneSterneSterneSterne
Publisher: Bantam   
ISBN: 9780385343497

 

This was a delightful book, I thoroughly enjoyed every word of it. Narrated by Jayne Entwistle who brings Flavia, a very bright eleven year old girl to life. 

Set in the summer of 1950, a simpler quieter period, Flavia De Luce lives in the English countryside in a decaying English Manor, Bucksaw, with her widowed, reclusive father and two older sisters.

Flavia falls into a murder that revolves around a incident that happened to her father while his was in school.  Precocious and wise beyond her years, Flavia leads us through a youthful crime investigation with as much pluck as any hardened PI in the business. 

Bradley has done an excellent job of pulling this off the wall story together, I highly recommend it.

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