The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
- Published
- 1 January 2009
- Pages
- 373
- ISBN-13
- 9781846527463
- Type
- novel
About this book
As the first installment of Flavia de Luce, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie appeared in 2009, introducing eleven-year-old poison-obsessed narrator Flavia and her Victorian chemistry laboratory in the crumbling country house of Buckshaw.
Key facts about The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Alan Bradley wrote The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2009. The book has 373 pages.
We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781846527463 to find the main one.
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is book 1 of 11 in the Flavia de Luce series. The series has 11 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
That series sits on our cozy mystery shelf. Meanwhile, What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust is the latest published Alan Bradley book on file, from 2024.
About Alan Bradley
Alan Bradley is a Canadian author best known for the Flavia de Luce series, a run of cozy mysteries set in 1950s England and narrated by an eleven-year-old chemistry prodigy with a taste for poisons and a habit of solving murders faster than the local police. See every Alan Bradley book in order.
Its place in Flavia de Luce
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is book 1 in the Flavia de Luce series. It is followed by The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag. See the full Flavia de Luce reading order.
Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce lives in a crumbling English country pile called Buckshaw with her distant father, two spiteful older sisters, and a Victorian chemistry laboratory she has claimed as her own private kingdom. She is obsessed with poisons — their properties, their history, their delivery — and it is only a matter of time before a body turns up on the cucumber patch for her to apply that knowledge to. Set in the placid English village of Bishop's Lacey in the early 1950s, each novel drops a corpse…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780752891941
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780606238304
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9785170873197