{"id":2627,"date":"2012-07-27T15:24:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T14:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2627"},"modified":"2012-12-09T13:52:53","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T13:52:53","slug":"the-child-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2627","title":{"rendered":"The Child Who"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/The-Child-Who-ebook\/dp\/B006J68G28\/ref=tmm_kin_title_0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/The-Child-Who-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The Child Who\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/The-Child-Who-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/The-Child-Who.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I read most of this book in one day.  It seems short though it claims to be 315 pages long.<\/p>\n<p>It starts off well.  The subject matter is original; there aren&#8217;t many books out there about a child, Daniel, who allegedly murders a child.  But the story is that of the accused&#8217;s solicitor, Leo Curtice, and the effect that defending Daniel has on his family.<\/p>\n<p>There are some tense parts in the book, like when the car Leo is in gets mobbed or when he and his family are being stalked on a day trip.  The dialogue mostly feels very real.  But there&#8217;s nothing that makes the book any more than just reasonablly well written.  The ending felt out of place because most of the book until that point focusses on Leo&#8217;s situation and also Daniel&#8217;s to a lesser extent but the conclusion &#8211; here I don&#8217;t want to spoil the ending &#8211; doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Something that annoyed me at various points in the book is the use of the pronouns he or she without naming the character so that the reader isn&#8217;t clear, at least for a short while, who is being written about.  Sarah Winman also does it in When God Was a Rabbit.  I don&#8217;t know whether it&#8217;s deliberate or not but I strongly dislike it!<\/p>\n<p>In summary, compared to the other books I&#8217;ve read, I&#8217;d say that The Child Who is only average.<\/p>\n<p>(32nd in 2012)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read most of this book in one day. It seems short though it claims to be 315 pages long. It starts off well. The subject matter is original; there aren&#8217;t many books out there about a child, Daniel, who allegedly murders a child. But the story is that of the accused&#8217;s solicitor, Leo Curtice, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2627"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3791,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions\/3791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}