{"id":593,"date":"2011-06-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T21:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/?p=593"},"modified":"2024-12-31T15:59:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T02:59:27","slug":"fragment-of-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/06\/25\/fragment-of-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Fragment Of Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><strong>Phillipa Fioretti<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><em>Hachette<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Otago Daily Times, June 25th 2011<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Although Phillipa Fioretti\u2019s novel <em>Fragment of Dreams<\/em> falls squarely into the category of \u2018chic-lit\u2019 \u00ad a genre for which I have limited patience \u00ad it is a cut above most of its fellows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Having escaped a miserable relationship and potential financial ruin, Lily Trevennen is preparing to start a new life in Italy with William Isyanov, an antiquities expert she met in Fioretti\u2019s previous novel <em>The Book of Love\u2019<\/em>. Then her sister Poppy discovers a long-lost paternal uncle and they decide to pay him a visit, hoping to learn more about their family history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">While at his house they meet a dashing young cousin, Adam, and William recognises a potentially valuable fragment of Italian marble-work in the garden. So when the stone is stolen on the same day William leaves for Rome, he immediately becomes the prime suspect. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Left behind in London, Lily is begins to question how well she knows him and whether he really loves her, while William is determined not to drag her into his troubles and believes she has turned to her newly-found cousin for comfort. Will their relationship survive? Can they find the missing fragment and clear William\u2019s name? And what is the secret that led to her uncle\u2019s estrangement from her parents?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">These questions are solved in a rollicking adventure, spiced with danger, peppered with details of Australian and Italian life that lend three-dimensionality without becoming boring or banal, and refreshingly free of gratuitous sex. It even contains a recipe for Lily\u2019s famous Lemon Vanilla Marmalade. If you are looking for a good light read, <em>Fragment of Dreams<\/em> may be the perfect antidote to a cold Dunedin winter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phillipa Fioretti<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOtago Daily Times review June 25th 2011<\/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":[126,370,18,138],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-126","tag-fiction","tag-odt","tag-phillipa-fioretti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","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=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1495,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/1495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}