The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Author: Alan Bradley, Read by: Jayne Entwistle
Published by: Random House Audio
Published: Delacorte Press;First Edition April 28, 2009
Format: Audio Book
Source: Library
On Goodreads, "The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie" only gets a rating of 3.76. I am utterly stunned. From Goodreads:
In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950—and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia’s family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. “I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn’t. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life.”
I have to agree it was "wickedly brilliant". Having looked it up on Goodreads, I have also found it is the first of 3. Flavia is a character that I immediately fell in love with. It is written I would describe like most other 1800 century English writings. The story begins as Flavia is trying to poison her sister. I said poison, not kill, as a matter of fact we aren't sure exactly what Flavia's up to till the very end of the story. Flavia has such a unique "voice" and though it's a murder mystery it kept me laughing almost all the way through. This was an audio book from my library and Entwistle's voice ties it all together excerpts can be found on Entwistle's Random House page. I absolutely loved this novel and will be reading or hearing all the others as well. I believe it deserves 5 out of 5 stars.
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