{"id":351,"date":"2005-07-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T22:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/?p=351"},"modified":"2024-12-31T12:27:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T23:27:10","slug":"famous-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2005\/07\/30\/famous-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><strong>Kate Lyndon<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><em>HarperCollins<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Otago Daily Times, July 30th 2005<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Having read a lot of bad chick-lit, <em>Famous<\/em> by NZ author Kate Lydon came as a delightful surprise.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">At 33, Samantha Steel\u2019s life seems perfect.\u00a0 An SPG (Single Professional Girl) working for a leading Auckland ad agency, she and her friends Mands and Lizzie live for shopping, parting and champagne.\u00a0 Her definition of disaster is finding another woman at a party in the same dress, or learning an ex-boyfriend is now a woman (<em>\u201cand more gorgeous than you\u2026was anything worse?<\/em>&#8220;).\u00a0 Well, yes-as she discovers after a one-night stand with a well-known-to everyone but Sam-and very married sportsman.\u00a0 Terrorized by paparazzi who condemn her as a home-wrecking floozy, she is forced to flee, incognito, to a rural town to escape.\u00a0 The nightmare continues as she faces such monumental challenges as cooking, lighting fires, life without good coffee\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Sam is a delightful narrator, her tone light, witty and ironic.&nbsp; She laughs with the reader at herself rather than falling into self-pity, and I genuinely liked her.&nbsp; Lydon\u2019s plot is action-packed, her humour deft and insightful, and she is an author to watch.&nbsp; Grab a latte, turn off that cell phone and enjoy the read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Lyndon<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOtago Daily Times review July 30th 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":[32,370,41,18],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-32","tag-fiction","tag-kate-lydon","tag-odt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","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=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}