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Flavia de Luce's Family Secrets Exposed
In this book, Alan Bradley has written the conclusion of a chapter in the life of Flavia de Luce, the preteen genius whose nosing-around in various homicides in the 1950's English village of Bishops Lacey has been the meat of the previous five books in the de Luce series. Always simmering on the back burner in the previous books has been the drama of the de Luce family's decaying fortunes after the disappearance of Flavia's mother during a mysterious expedition in Tibet. In this book, Bradley brings the family matter to the foreground and neglects the "English countryside mystery" angle almost entirely.

The book plays to several of Bradley's strengths. His wonderful writing style is in full flower, more what one thinks of as literature than as genre fare (though that distinction is, of course, artificial), and he perfectly captures the emotional tone of the terribly reserved, terribly British de Luce family as they are shattered with sorrow but too proper to...

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