{"id":103,"date":"2006-11-07T19:29:24","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T23:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=103"},"modified":"2006-11-07T19:29:24","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T23:29:24","slug":"the-ladies-of-grace-adieu-and-other-stories-by-susanna-clarkebloomsbury-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/the-ladies-of-grace-adieu-and-other-stories-by-susanna-clarkebloomsbury-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna ClarkeBloomsbury, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a beautifully designed volume: the pink flowers on the otherwise dark cover, the wine-colored endpapers, the elegant type, the rough edges of the pages. The stories it contains are clever and pleasing and good for quiet autumn or winter evenings: &#8220;On Lickerish Hill,&#8221; (a reworking of the Tom Tit Tot story) and &#8220;Mrs. Mabb&#8221; read like typical fairy tales, while other stories in the book are more reminiscent of <i>Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell<\/i>. Some, like the title story, share characters with the novel, while others (like &#8220;Mr Simonelli or the Fairy Widower&#8221;) just share an aesthetic, or inhabit the same world, an England in which the realm of Faerie is just through the woods, or just around the corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a beautifully designed volume: the pink flowers on the otherwise dark cover, the wine-colored endpapers, the elegant type, the rough edges of the pages. The stories it contains are clever and pleasing and good for quiet autumn or winter evenings: &#8220;On Lickerish Hill,&#8221; (a reworking of the Tom Tit Tot story) and &#8220;Mrs. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}