{"id":5392,"date":"2014-08-11T09:44:52","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T08:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5392"},"modified":"2015-06-16T08:19:42","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T07:19:42","slug":"restless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5392","title":{"rendered":"Restless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Restless-William-Boyd\/dp\/0747586209\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Restless.jpg\" alt=\"Restless\" width=\"290\" height=\"446\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5393\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I read this for book group.  Even though I had to look up the meanings of lots of words it&#8217;s a fairly easy read.  I thought it was good that the two main female characters were written in such a human way; they got irritated, angry, annoyed etc.<\/p>\n<p>What I didn&#8217;t like was the way it kept you in suspense over what was going on for more than 89 pages.  Also on p56 Lucas tells Eva &#8216;Never trust anyone&#8217; and I knew then that Lucas was going to betray her, so the book was spoilt for me.  Although Eva&#8217;s story had a lot more action in it than her daughter Ruth&#8217;s I found boring in places and skim read some of it, especially the descriptions of places.  Life After Life and The Night Watch invoke that wartime period far better.<\/p>\n<p>In Ruth&#8217;s story there are lots of people introduced and storylines that didn&#8217;t seem to have any relevance in the end.  Actually Ruth (Eva\/Sally&#8217;s daughter) seemed to have no significance apart from as a vehicle to tell her mother&#8217;s story.  Her husband&#8217;s brother&#8217;s appearance had no reason whatsoever.  Or Hamid.  Or Robert York.  None of these people added anything to Ruth&#8217;s story.  It was supposed to be set in the 70&#8217;s but there wasn&#8217;t anything there that evoked that period for me. <\/p>\n<p>Overall, I wouldn&#8217;t recommend this book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this for book group. Even though I had to look up the meanings of lots of words it&#8217;s a fairly easy read. I thought it was good that the two main female characters were written in such a human way; they got irritated, angry, annoyed etc. What I didn&#8217;t like was the way [&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-5392","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\/5392","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=5392"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5919,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5392\/revisions\/5919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}