There is a sense of wonder I can remember from being 11. Some of the things that come with that age are so intriguing. It's a cusp that is not puberty nor adulthood, and yet it's not childhood. Since I've gotten to know her, I have thought a lot about how 11 is a very important age. "I can't take credit for Flavia being alive because she was 11 when she first arrived on the page. Shelagh Rogers spoke to Bradley in 2013 about the origins of his wonderful young protagonist. In the new book, precocious 12-year-old detective Flavia is back on the case when, at her sister's wedding reception, a severed human finger falls out of the elegant wedding cake. Millions of copies later, Bradley, now 80, is publishing his tenth book, The Golden Tresses of the Dead, the final book under contract in the series. Alan Bradley says he's what his mother would have called a "late bloomer." His third act began in his late 60s when he started to write his series of Flavia de Luce mystery novels.
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