This book has been on my to-read list for a while and I’m not sure why I thought it was a southern gothic tale; perhaps I didn’t pay close enough attention to the reviews. When I finally got a copy of Alan Bradley’s novel, I was surprised to find that it’s set in the world of early 1950’s Britain, where Flavia de Luce, a precocious young woman with a keen interest in chemistry, lives with her father and sisters in a crumbling but once grand […]