{"id":344,"date":"2005-06-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T22:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/?p=344"},"modified":"2025-05-03T16:59:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T04:59:05","slug":"the-celestial-looking-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2005\/06\/26\/the-celestial-looking-glass\/","title":{"rendered":"The Celestial Looking Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><strong>Ray Drayton<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><em>Hazard Press<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Otago Daily Times, June 26th 2005<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Ray Drayton wrote <em>The Celestial Looking Glass<\/em> as a tribute to those who fought in World War II. A young reporter, Alison, discovers the secret past of her beloved grandmother, Madeleine, who was a Resistance fighter in France. She retraces Madeleine\u2019s footsteps to the French battlefields in search of Madeleine\u2019s first husband, fellow Resistance fighter Francois, only to find herself caught up in a series of coincidences which make her realise she is more like her grandmother than she realised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Although Alison\u2019s journey of self-discovery is unconvincing, the descriptions of Madeleine\u2019s training and wartime experiences are extraordinary and gripping. The details of the training and the immense bravery of the fighters are fascinating. The meaningless snuffing out of life is detailed in such a way as to convey a real sense of the horrors of war. In this respect, Drayton has composed a fitting memorial to those who lived and died in the name of freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Drayton <\/p>\n<p>Otago Daily Times review June 26th 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":[32,370,500,18,40],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-32","tag-fiction","tag-nz-author","tag-odt","tag-ray-drayton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","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=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1339,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/1339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}