{"id":5894,"date":"2015-05-20T11:01:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T10:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5894"},"modified":"2015-05-28T23:59:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T22:59:56","slug":"the-girl-in-the-red-coat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5894","title":{"rendered":"The Girl in the Red Coat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/The-Girl-Coat-Kate-Hamer\/dp\/0571313248\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Girl_in_the_red_coat.jpg\" alt=\"Girl_in_the_red_coat\" width=\"181\" height=\"278\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5898\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was recommended to me by members of the book group.  Not an &#8216;official&#8217; read but an optional one as the author came to the library to do a talk. <\/p>\n<p>It seemed like nothing happened for the first 100 pages but afterwards I became sucked into the plot, despite my disbelief that a child of 8 would know anything about people&#8217;s &#8216;energies&#8217;.  Actually the whole spiritualism aspect annoyed me.  The chapters written from the young girl&#8217;s point of view were very convincing though.  The Gramps and Pastor characters were thoroughly menacing.  The end felt rushed; it was a happy ending and I would have expected the author to make more of that.  Anyway.  Not sure I&#8217;d recommend this to anyone as there are better thrillers out there (e.g. The Girl on the Train) but it was a page-turner with some interesting ideas in it.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was recommended to me by members of the book group. Not an &#8216;official&#8217; read but an optional one as the author came to the library to do a talk. It seemed like nothing happened for the first 100 pages but afterwards I became sucked into the plot, despite my disbelief that a child of [&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-5894","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\/5894","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=5894"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5900,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5894\/revisions\/5900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}