Book Review: Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

We’ve got a lovely bit of a British story (written by a Canadian) next up in Book Review Week…

Book Review For: Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
By Alan Bradley

There is something about an 11-year-old heroine who is charmingly British that caused me to fall in love with this book.

Flavia, an 11-year-old with a frightening passion for chemistry and all things poison-related, stumbles upon a dying man in her family’s cucumber patch. Instead of fainting or running off screaming, she gets involved in solving the mystery not only of whom this odd stranger was, but also who killed him.

Flavia is a bit of a loner gal with no mother and a father who has his head in postage stamps. (Wow, can we say geek? That’s even geekier than me!) She has two older sisters, but they take turns ganging up on each other in most unusual and inventive ways. I dare say those bloody British kids are bloomin’ brilliant. When her father is arrested for the murder of the man left in the cucumber patch, Flavia gives her sisters reprieve from her tortures and jumps on her bike to track down clues faster than the billies can say “Steady on.”

There are more promised in this series and dare say this ol’ gal will read them.

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