{"id":8893,"date":"2019-09-06T18:20:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T17:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/?p=8893"},"modified":"2019-09-06T18:20:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T17:20:52","slug":"fen-by-daisy-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/fen-by-daisy-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Fen by Daisy Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I think I picked up <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2MZ6RKZ\">F<em>en<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>in Blackwell&#8217;s in Oxford, drawn to it by one of those bookseller reader cards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Fen<\/em> is a short story collection set in and around the fens, telling dark gothic tales. It reminded me a little of Angela Carter&#8217;s short stories, although in a much more contemporary setting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tales share the sexuality of Carter&#8217;s stories, although the references are different. You certainly get the sense of place of the fens &#8211; a distant land within our own. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I need to catch up with her more recent novel, <em>Everything Under.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I picked up Fen in Blackwell&#8217;s in Oxford, drawn to it by one of those bookseller reader cards. Fen is a short story collection set in and around the fens, telling dark gothic tales. It reminded me a little of Angela Carter&#8217;s short stories, although in a much more contemporary setting. The tales [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[108],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8895,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8893\/revisions\/8895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}