{"id":3718,"date":"2012-06-09T21:54:55","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T20:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3718"},"modified":"2012-12-09T13:58:48","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T13:58:48","slug":"what-was-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3718","title":{"rendered":"What Was Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/What-Was-Lost-Catherine-OFlynn\/dp\/1906994250\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/What-Was-Lost-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"What Was Lost\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/What-Was-Lost-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/What-Was-Lost.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the first book I&#8217;ve read with my reading group.  I liked it a lot.  It is very spooky and feels very close to home which I find to be a good combination.  It&#8217;s written by someone very close to my age who grew up in the Midlands so I understood all her cultural references.  Not only that but the shopping centre featured is based on the Merry Hill centre.  I couldn&#8217;t find much to criticize in this at all.  It&#8217;s a multi-faceted book, with both hilarious and poignant moments.  It has a cracking mystery running through it and contains a thoughtful depiction of modern life.<\/p>\n<p>(22nd in 2012)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first book I&#8217;ve read with my reading group. I liked it a lot. It is very spooky and feels very close to home which I find to be a good combination. It&#8217;s written by someone very close to my age who grew up in the Midlands so I understood all her cultural [&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-3718","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\/3718","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=3718"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3812,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718\/revisions\/3812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}