{"id":302,"date":"2010-12-19T22:30:12","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T22:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/?p=302"},"modified":"2011-04-27T17:22:09","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T16:22:09","slug":"present-tense-book-review-%e2%80%93-lady-audley%e2%80%99s-secret-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/present-tense-book-review-%e2%80%93-lady-audley%e2%80%99s-secret-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Present Tense Book Review \u2013 Lady Audley\u2019s Secret: Part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(<a href='\/blog\/archives\/280'>Part Three<\/a> of this Present Tense Book Review.)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOk, so there is a bit of a twist at the end, and I didn&#8217;t see it coming; but still, as I whinged about in the last instalment, the end of this book sags badly. If the last 120 pages were condensed into 20 pages, it&#8217;d be great. As it is, it&#8217;s good. And interesting, as outlined in the &#8216;Case Notes&#8217; at the end, by Robert Giddings, in its portrayal of women, and its feminist subtext. I won&#8217;t rehash his points here, suffice to say that he writes well and does a splendid job of placing the novel in context, and filling in some biographical detail. As, indeed, <a href='\/blog\/archives\/129'>he has done with the other Atlantic &#8216;Crime Classics&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Part Three of this Present Tense Book Review.) Ok, so there is a bit of a twist at the end, and I didn&#8217;t see it coming; but still, as I whinged about in the last instalment, the end of this book sags badly. If the last 120 pages were condensed into 20 pages, it&#8217;d be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":618,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}