{"id":473,"date":"2009-05-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T22:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/?p=473"},"modified":"2025-05-03T16:53:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T04:53:17","slug":"dreams-of-origami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/05\/09\/dreams-of-origami\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreams of Origami"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><strong>Elenor Gill<\/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, May 9th 2009<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The titular dreams of origami in Elenor Gill\u2019s new novel belong to Gideon Wakefield, a psychic researcher who is called in to help locate a man who has mysteriously disappeared from a Fenland village just outside Cambridge.\u00a0\u00a0 One moment Matthew Caxton is in his workshop, the next gone without a trace, leaving his wife, Triss, terrified and alone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The police have no leads, the chief investigator openly hostile, and even the environment seems malevolent; storms, hauntings, and outbreaks of mindless violence in the community. Local reporter Lacey Prentice\u2019s initial interest is purely professional, but she quickly identifies with Triss\u2019s grief, having recently lost her own husband to a heart attack. She asks Gideon for assistance, and he soon comes to realise supernatural forces at work threaten the very fabric of the world, a crisis that that he has been training for since first meeting his tutor, Cassandra, in adolescence dreams.\u00a0 Over the years she has taught his sleeping mind to fold intricate birds and flowers from featureless sheets of paper, metaphorical representations of the universe that he must now protect from the forces of chaos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Gill\u2019s interest in psychic phenomena is evident, particularly in the extracts of Gideon\u2019s hypothesis that science and mysticism are converging in proof of the paranormal. Suspension of disbelief will help here (I felt like shouting rebuttals occasionally), and <em>Dreams of Origami<\/em> is not recommended reading for sceptics, but if you like Paulo Coelho, you\u2019ll probably enjoy this novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/entertainment\/books\/fighting-chaos\">https:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/entertainment\/books\/fighting-chaos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elenor Gill<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOtago Daily Times review May 9th 2009<\/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":[88,99,370,500,18,407],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-88","tag-elenor-gill","tag-fiction","tag-nz-author","tag-odt","tag-speculative-sci-fi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","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=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1423,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/1423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}