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Sweetness at the bottom of pie5/12/2023 Samuel Craven has arrived at Buckshaw to collect a debt from her father. Flavia realizes that the stamp belongs to her father’s rare stamp collection and suspects foul play.įlavia decides to investigate the matter and soon discovers that the stamp is connected to a decades-old family mystery. One morning, she finds a dead bird with a rare stamp attached to its beak on the doorstep. Flavia is a precocious and curious child who has a passion for chemistry and a knack for solving mysteries. The book opens with Flavia de Luce, an eleven-year-old girl who lives in the decaying Buckshaw estate with her father and two older sisters. In this review, I will explore the different aspects of the book and provide my opinion on its strengths and weaknesses. It is a witty and entertaining read that keeps the reader engaged from beginning to end. The book is written in the first-person narrative from Flavia’s point of view. When a dead bird with a rare stamp attached to its beak is found on the doorstep, Flavia is drawn into a mystery that involves murder, deceit, and the secrets of her family’s past. Flavia lives with her father and two sisters at Buckshaw, a decaying estate in England. The book is set in the year 1950 and follows the story of an eleven-year-old girl, Flavia de Luce, who is an amateur sleuth with a passion for chemistry. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley is the first novel in the Flavia de Luce mystery series.
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