Fiction Pick of the Week: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan C. Bradley 2009
It is hard to believe that this debut mystery author and winner of the British Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger Award so convincingly evokes the British manners and setting of the 1950s when the author , a Canadian, admits that he had "not set foot in England until 2007"!
More surprisingly, most of the sleuth work is done by one Flavia de Luce – a precocious eleven year old girl who has as much passion for chemistry as she does disdain for her two older sisters' tiresome preoccupations with all things feminine. That the author and his protagonist make use of their local library to do their research makes this cozy mystery all the easier to recommend! We cannot wait for the sequel!
1 comment:
This was a great story. I loved that you can give it to your son or daughter, and your grandmother, and they'd both enjoy it. It's one of those mysteries that doesn't have any gore, coarse language, or sexual content, which is rare! A special find.
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