{"id":2850,"date":"2012-09-17T21:19:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T20:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2850"},"modified":"2012-12-09T13:54:29","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T13:54:29","slug":"enduring-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2850","title":{"rendered":"Enduring Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Enduring-Love-Ian-McEwan\/dp\/0099276585\/ref=tmm_pap_title_0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Enduring-Love-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Enduring Love\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Enduring-Love-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Enduring-Love.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a very strange tale.  Throughout I felt uncomfortable and even more so after reading the letter in the appendix at the end.  I suppose I should have expected it; this is classic McEwan: disturbing, well written, well researched and razor sharp when it comes to thoughts and interactions.  There isn&#8217;t anyone I&#8217;ve read who can take you into a character&#8217;s mind like McEwan can.  So, while it&#8217;s not a happy read and doesn&#8217;t seem as polished as On Chesil Beach or Amsterdam, it&#8217;s still worth a read.  When you&#8217;ve finished it, (re)consider the meaning of the title.<\/p>\n<p>(38th in 2012)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a very strange tale. Throughout I felt uncomfortable and even more so after reading the letter in the appendix at the end. I suppose I should have expected it; this is classic McEwan: disturbing, well written, well researched and razor sharp when it comes to thoughts and interactions. There isn&#8217;t anyone I&#8217;ve read [&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-2850","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\/2850","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=2850"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3797,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions\/3797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}