{"id":771,"date":"2011-05-27T16:20:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T16:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=771"},"modified":"2015-04-08T18:39:23","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T18:39:23","slug":"22-britannia-road-by-amanda-hodgkinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=771","title":{"rendered":"22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-803 size-full\" title=\"22 Britannia Road\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/22-Britannia-Road.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the end of World War II, Polish war survivor Silvana and her seven-year-old son, Aurek, travel to England to be reunited with her husband, Janusz,\u00a0after\u00a0six years of separation.\u00a0As they struggle to establish new lives, the horrors of the war years and the secrets that they keep from each other interfere with their\u00a0relationship and threaten to destroy their efforts at creating a safe and happy home for their son.\u00a0\u00a0The novel, a debut for the author,\u00a0presents a stunning description of what a mother will do to protect her child in\u00a0impossible conditions, and\u00a0of the dehumanizing effect of war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of World War II, Polish war survivor Silvana and her seven-year-old son, Aurek, travel to England to be reunited with her husband, Janusz,\u00a0after\u00a0six years of separation.\u00a0As they struggle to establish new lives, the horrors of the war years and the secrets that they keep from each other interfere with their\u00a0relationship and threaten &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=771\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson<\/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":[3,4,8,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-linda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","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=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}