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Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd (Flavia de Luce, #8)

Alan Bradley

Start date: November 15, 2022

Finish date: December 6, 2022

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Jul 20, 2022 David Bryant rated it it was amazing

Redeemed! I had criticized the previous book in this series, and an happy to report that the author is now back on track! I thoroughly enjoyed this story, the eighth in the Flavia de Luce series.
One aspect that impressed me was the many bits of poetry by the imaginary author Oliver Inchbald whose life, writings, and death are at the heart of this book. Initially, I thought that he was an actual British author whose stories had been read by every English child. But his clever poems turn out to b ...more

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Oct 10, 2016 Ann rated it really liked it

Flavia DeLuce is asked by the minister's wife to go visit the local woodcarver to ask if he would repair a carving in the church. When she arrives she finds the body of the carver hung inside his bedroom door. She is on her own for the most part because her dear father is in the hospital with pneumonia and the family can't be keeping track of her. This was a good installment of the Flavia series and I am glad she is back in England. I liked the book but it wasn't the best in the series. I didn't ...more

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