{"id":4680,"date":"2013-05-24T21:34:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T20:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4680"},"modified":"2013-06-10T21:36:49","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T20:36:49","slug":"this-perfect-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4680","title":{"rendered":"This Perfect World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/This-Perfect-World-Unabridged\/dp\/B003RB50TU\/ref=tmm_aud_title_0?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1370894155&amp;sr=1-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/This-Perfect-World-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"This Perfect World\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/This-Perfect-World.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/This-Perfect-World-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wanted a light listen while sunbathing in the garden so thought I&#8217;d give this a try.  I didn&#8217;t expect it to be but it was compulsive and sometimes very dark listening.  It&#8217;s about a woman who was a bully at school who comes back into contact with the girl she bullied in their 30&#8217;s.  The story of the past is told interspersed with the present.  As the story unfolds, the main character develops into a better person as she comes to terms with the past and tries to repent for it in the present.  Sadly I did guess the mysterious reason why the main character&#8217;s family felt so indebted, but it&#8217;s still a good listen.  There is quite a lot of self-harm mentioned in the book.  I&#8217;m not sure how I felt about it.<\/p>\n<p>It brought back memories of bullying behaviour at primary school.  Certainly there were times when I was picked on, but I remember making fun of someone&#8217;s weight with another girl and I also remember a girl called Vicky who was picked on by lots of people and I never did anything about it.  She could have been the bullied girl in this book and that makes me feel very uncomfortable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted a light listen while sunbathing in the garden so thought I&#8217;d give this a try. I didn&#8217;t expect it to be but it was compulsive and sometimes very dark listening. It&#8217;s about a woman who was a bully at school who comes back into contact with the girl she bullied in their 30&#8217;s. [&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-4680","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\/4680","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=4680"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4684,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4680\/revisions\/4684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}