{"id":5094,"date":"2014-02-24T00:09:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T00:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5094"},"modified":"2014-02-25T02:56:02","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T02:56:02","slug":"the-little-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5094","title":{"rendered":"The Little Stranger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Little-Stranger-Sarah-Waters\/dp\/1844086062\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/little-stranger-sarah-waters-189x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Little Stranger\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5095\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/little-stranger-sarah-waters-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/little-stranger-sarah-waters.jpg 417w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This book starts off slowly but luckily for me it picks up around p80 (I only give books a maximum of 100 pages to make an impression on me).  The pace accelerates after that, hurtling with breakneck speed towards the unsettling ending.  The Little Stranger is a beautifully crafted and extremely creepy novel.  It definitely warrants a re-read as, after I listened to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/audio\/2010\/aug\/19\/sarah-waters-guardian-book-club\">Guardian book club podcast<\/a>, there is a fair bit I missed the first time around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book starts off slowly but luckily for me it picks up around p80 (I only give books a maximum of 100 pages to make an impression on me). The pace accelerates after that, hurtling with breakneck speed towards the unsettling ending. The Little Stranger is a beautifully crafted and extremely creepy novel. It definitely [&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-5094","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\/5094","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=5094"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5118,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5094\/revisions\/5118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}