{"id":134,"date":"2020-02-11T13:06:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T13:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/judithwharton.com\/?p=134"},"modified":"2020-02-11T13:06:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T13:06:17","slug":"review-lothian-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judithwharton.com\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"Review &#8211; Lothian Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nice review by Anne Hamilton at the beginning of the year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She writes:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Newburgh is definitely more Oxford\/Cambridge than red-brick university and the hierarchies between faculty and students and the so-called \u2018town and gown\u2019 are very clear \u2013 until the characters start blurring them. Isla, herself, is the person whose role sits somewhat in the middle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The setting is strong \u2013 the traditional and elite college life being nibbled at the edges by the need to move with the times \u2013 and the characters largely engaging and, in some cases, all too realistic. It\u2019s not just a description of campus life either, there are several dimensions to the plot that finally come together\u2026in time to face the now-fabled Millennium Bug.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-lothian-life-the-magazine-for-edinburgh-and-the-lothians\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.lothianlife.co.uk\/2020\/01\/bug-judith-wharton\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice review by Anne Hamilton at the beginning of the year. She writes: &#8220;Newburgh is definitely more Oxford\/Cambridge than red-brick university and the hierarchies between faculty and students and the so-called \u2018town and gown\u2019 are very clear \u2013 until the characters start blurring them. Isla, herself, is the person whose role sits somewhat in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[30,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judithwharton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/judithwharton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/judithwharton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judithwharton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judithwharton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/judithwharton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/judithwharton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judithwharton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judithwharton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judithwharton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}