She combines the passion of Anne Shirley with the smarts of Miss Marple and the crossover appeal of Harry Potter. Bradley grew up in Cobourg and later moved to Toronto, Saskatoon and, after retiring, to B.C.įor those who haven’t met Flavia, she is a quick-witted 11-year-old amateur sleuth living in a 1950s British village where bodies tend to pile up. Bradley’s wife says she always knows when Flavia has done something terrible because she can hear him laughing in the next room of their home on the Isle of Man, where they moved several years ago. She is a constant presence whispering ideas into his ear. That’s how she has always appeared to him through their 10 titles together, including the latest, and potentially final, The Golden Tresses of the Dead. Maybe it’s magic or some form of alchemy, but textbook science can’t totally explain Bradley and Flavia’s relationship.īradley, 80, speaks about his character as if she is a fully realized, breathing person, almost like a co-writer. He finds the old Victorian medical volumes he relies on for the series’ research quite gruesome. Bradley, on the other hand, was terrible at chemistry in school. She adores all things grisly or revolting, and delights in corpses and graveyards. Flavia de Luce, the intrepid preteen detective and star of Alan Bradley’s internationally beloved mystery series, solves crimes using her precociously advanced chemistry skills.
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