{"id":6499,"date":"2012-06-16T20:25:46","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T20:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/2012\/06\/16\/malarky-reminiscent-of-under-milk-wood\/"},"modified":"2012-06-16T20:25:46","modified_gmt":"2012-06-16T20:25:46","slug":"malarky-reminiscent-of-under-milk-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/2012\/06\/16\/malarky-reminiscent-of-under-milk-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"Malarky: &#8220;reminiscent of Under Milk Wood&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to\u00a0<em>JC Sutcliffe<\/em> at Slightly Bookist for taking precious time to engage with and excavate Malarky.<\/p>\n<p>In her review she remarks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/slightlybookist.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/08\/malarky-by-anakana-schofield\/\">This doesn\u2019t mention the grief that is stamped through the novel like the writing in a stick of rock, nor the fact that the narrative jumps around in time to make sure that the reader never gets too complacent, too comfortable in a particular emotion.\u00a0Characters are dead, then alive, the dead again, which plays nicely with our internalised propriety that makes us shy away from speaking ill of the dead.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slightlybookist.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/08\/malarky-by-anakana-schofield\/\">If all this talk of death makes <em>Malarky <\/em>sound bleak, it is anything but. It\u2019s a glorious, breathless romp through the mind of an immensely likeable woman, a book reminiscent of <em>Under Milk Wood <\/em>in the beautiful and unexpected cadences of the writing.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click the above to read the entire piece.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to\u00a0JC Sutcliffe at Slightly Bookist for taking precious time to engage with and excavate Malarky. In her review she remarks: This doesn\u2019t mention the grief that is stamped through the novel like the writing in a stick of rock, nor the fact that the narrative jumps around in time to make sure that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[169,240,413,545,752,754,1058,1207],"class_list":["post-6499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-anakana-schofield","tag-biblioasis","tag-dylan-thomas","tag-grief","tag-malarky-novel","tag-malarky-review","tag-slightly-bookist","tag-under-milk-wood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}