{"id":2714,"date":"2014-07-16T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2714"},"modified":"2015-03-30T21:42:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T21:42:56","slug":"mr-churchills-secretary-by-susan-elia-macneal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2714","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Churchill&#8217;s Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2724 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Mr.-Churchills-Secretary.jpg\" alt=\"Mr. Churchill's Secretary\" width=\"129\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s wartime, 1940.\u00a0 Maggie Hope, raised in America, is actually British\u00a0and, due to the unexpected inheritance of a house, finds herself in London and in need of a job.\u00a0 Most unexpectedly, she winds up working\u00a0as a typist for the prime minister, Winston Churchill himself.\u00a0 Maggie&#8217;s background is actually math, and she soon finds herself caught up in intrigue and ciphers.\u00a0 This book contains marvelous period detail and interesting characters.\u00a0 It is both a first-rate historical novel and a fine murder mystery.\u00a0 Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s wartime, 1940.\u00a0 Maggie Hope, raised in America, is actually British\u00a0and, due to the unexpected inheritance of a house, finds herself in London and in need of a job.\u00a0 Most unexpectedly, she winds up working\u00a0as a typist for the prime minister, Winston Churchill himself.\u00a0 Maggie&#8217;s background is actually math, and she soon finds herself caught &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2714\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mr. Churchill&#8217;s Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-lois"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}