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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
June 2025: Summer
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley - 5 stars and 5 hears!
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This is such a great series! I loved them all.
I love, love love this series. The audios are excellent and Jayne Entwistle is a fantastic Flavia.
You're off to a good start. I think you will love the sequels. I'm up to the fifth book I think, and I usually save them for Christmas, to put me in a good mood.
Theresa, I loved your review! Looking for this book now.
Bobbi wrote: "Theresa, I loved your review! Looking for this book now."🥰. You are in for a real treat.
I l have read all of this series and, I'm too a fan of Flavia de Luce. Immortal at age 12, I do wish that there would be one book before Bradley finishes the series that has Flavia as a young woman. I would love to see how she turns out.
John wrote: "I l have read all of this series and, I'm too a fan of Flavia de Luce. Immortal at age 12, I do wish that there would be one book before Bradley finishes the series that has Flavia as a young woman..."Based on the interview included at the end of the book, Bradley will leave her where she is.
Set in June 1950, Flavia and her two sisters live with their widowed father and a couple loyal servants in a too large and too expensive to maintain manor house in the small English Village of Bishop's Lacey. Colonel de Luce, a philatelist and WWII veteran, spends his days with his stamp collection, letting his daughters, especially the youngest Flavia, pretty much run free. One night, Flavia awakens and overhears a man arguing with her father about something that suggests her father was somehow involved in murder 30 years earlier, when at school. Early the next morning, Flavia discovers a man lying in the cucumber patch, who expires after breathing the word 'Vale" to her. From there, intrepid fearless Flavia investigates, initially out of curiosity but then to prove her father, arrested for this murder, is innocent and catch the true killer.
I love everything about this -- the writing, the character development, the book and music references, the relationship of the 3 sisters, the village, the house, but most of all Flavia herself. She's terrifyingly brilliant and mature, but yet still a child who names her bike Gladys and treats her like a trusty steed, an 11 year old girl who likes to watch clouds, fly on her bike down hill with her feet off the pedals, hates bathing, and is fascinated by poisons. I loved especially her relationship with the police here - and I do hope we see them in her future adventures.
I also just adore the titles to each of these books!