The ship sails across the Atlantic to Toronto, reaching Miss Bodycote’s Female Academy. Dorsey is extremely demanding and controlling of her husband, who is somewhat spineless and deferential. Flavia, instantly annoyed by them, is anxious to regain her independence at the school. The Academy’s board sends its chairman, Ryerson Rainsmith, and his wife, Dorsey, to escort Flavia from her former home to the academy. Set in Canada instead of her homeland Britain, Flavia, a year older than in the previous novel, has been sent to an all-girls’ academy, Miss Bodycote’s Female Academy in Toronto. The novel largely deals with Flavia’s mother, who went missing early in Flavia’s childhood. The novel is the sixth book in a larger bildungsroman series in which Flavia comes of age through learning to cope with her past and developing her ambitions to solve crimes and make the world a better place. Having lost their mother at a young age under mysterious circumstances, the girls and their father still feel the loss and have difficulty communicating with each other. The youngest daughter of the de Luce family, Flavia lives with her father and two older sisters in an old, nearly derelict house in the country. Set in post-World War II Canada, it concerns Flavia de Luce, a twelve-year-old girl who independently investigates crimes. As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust is a 2015 mystery novel for young adults by Alan Bradley.
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