{"id":334,"date":"2005-03-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T22:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/?p=334"},"modified":"2025-05-03T16:24:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T04:24:30","slug":"split-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2005\/03\/25\/split-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Split Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><strong>Felicity Price<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><em>Random House<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Otago Daily Times, March 25th 2005<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">I recently heard author Felicity Price describe her latest novel <em>Split Time<\/em> as \u2018Bridget Jones\u2019 Diary for grown ups.\u2019&nbsp; This is a fairly accurate summation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">PR consultant Penny Rushmore\u2019s life is a chaotic blur of late appointments, school fixtures and family crises.&nbsp; With teenage children, a mother in the early stages of Alzheimer&#8217;s, her own company to run and an adulterous husband, she barely has time to worry about the hot flushes and her blossoming girth.&nbsp; When her mother gives her a series of letters written by her great grandmother Annie (an active suffragette and temperance advocate), she is struck by the similarities between their situations.&nbsp; Unlike Penny, however, Annie manages to keep her life under control, and has a few lessons for her great granddaughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Split Time<\/em> is competently written (the difficulties of coping with an aging parent are particularly well presented) and lacks the irritatingly adolescent whine of Bridget Jones.&nbsp; While not my cup of tea, it should keep those looking for a light chick-lit read happily entertained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felicity Price<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Otago Daily Times review March 25th 2005<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32,38,370,500,18],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-32","tag-felicity-price","tag-fiction","tag-nz-author","tag-odt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1337,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/1337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}