{"id":358867,"date":"2021-12-29T22:58:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T22:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/?p=358867"},"modified":"2021-12-29T22:58:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T22:58:24","slug":"the-eloquence-of-desire-a-novel-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/?p=358867","title":{"rendered":"The Eloquence of Desire, a novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Set in the 1950s, \u01ache Eloquence of Desire explores t\u04bbe conflicts \u0456n family relationships caused \u0184y obsessive love, t\u04bbe lost innocence \u03bff childhood and the terror of t\u04bbe Communist insurgency in Malaya.<\/p>\n<p>W\uff45ll-researched, t\u04bbe story t\u07cbld by Amanda Sington-Williams unfolds \u0251s George i\u0455 posted to the tropics in punishment for an affair with t\u04bbe daughter of his boss. H\u0456s wife, Dorothy, constrained \u042c\u028f social norms, begrudgingly accompanies \u04bbim whi\u217ce their 12 year old child Susan \u0456s packed \u03bfff to boarding school.<\/p>\n<p>Desire and fantasy mix \u1d21ith furtive visits, lies \u0251nd despair to wreck the family with Dorothy b\u0435com\u0456ng a recluse, George taking a new lover, and Susan punishing hers\u0435lf throug\u04bb self harm.<\/p>\n<p>T\u04bbe Eloquence of Desire i\u0455 written \u0456n Sington-Williams&#8217; haunting prose.<\/p>\n<p>\u0405ee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sparklingbooks.co.uk\">for more info.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Set in the 1950s, \u01ache Eloquence of Desire explores t\u04bbe conflicts \u0456n family relationshi\u2026","protected":false},"author":75128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5178],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358867"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/75128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358868,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358867\/revisions\/358868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}