{"id":2277,"date":"2017-10-02T16:09:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T14:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/?p=2277"},"modified":"2017-10-02T16:09:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T14:09:24","slug":"the-keeper-of-lost-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/?p=2277","title":{"rendered":"The Keeper of Lost Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Lost-Things.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2278\" src=\"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Lost-Things.jpg\" alt=\"Lost Things\" width=\"164\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every now and again a book comes along that makes your heart soar. It also makes you want to rush out in the street waving it at random strangers, yelling at them to read it.<\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t quite resorted to the latter. Yet. I am considering buying copies for dear friends as presents with the message, \u2018This book will cheer you up.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Not life-changing. Not great political thought. It will simply cheer you up. And let\u2019s face it, with the world in the state it\u2019s in, staying cheerful can be herculean.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the book? Ruth Hogan\u2019s <em>The Keeper of Lost Things.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m late to the buzz (as usual) and have to confess to only buying it because I thought the cover was pretty and its purchase enabled free delivery from Amazon. I hadn\u2019t heard all the hype.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s it about? It\u2019s about a writer of short stories who likes to keep the things he finds and about the woman who inherits his house. It\u2019s the story of lost belongings, lost people and lost dogs finding their rightful place. It made me laugh out loud, something I haven\u2019t done since reading Tom Sharpe\u2019s <em>Wilt<\/em> on a London commuter train, and cry for the first time since reading <em>Captain Corelli\u2019s Mandolin<\/em>. Part romance, part ghost story, part touching tale of how friendship can save people. The book is, quite frankly, a bit of a mess. I can imagine lots of creative writing tutors up and down the country tearing their hair out and saying, \u2018You just can\u2019t structure a book like that!\u2019 But it works in its own sweet way and is all tied up most satisfactorily in the end. It would make an excellent book club read.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s nice. A much underused word and a much underrated quality. We need more niceness in the world, especially at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Available here, I can\u2019t recommend it enough. Go on, for a few pennies you could nice up your life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Keeper-Lost-Things-feel-good-novel-ebook\/dp\/B01D8ZE2C0\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1506786623&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=ruth+hogan\">https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Keeper-Lost-Things-feel-good-novel-ebook\/dp\/B01D8ZE2C0\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1506786623&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=ruth+hogan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Georgia x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and again a book comes along that makes your heart soar. It also makes you want to rush out in the street waving it at random strangers, yelling at them to read it. I haven\u2019t quite resorted to the latter. Yet. I am considering buying copies for dear friends as presents with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[713,710,711,712],"class_list":["post-2277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-book-review","tag-ruth-hogan","tag-the-keeper-of-lost-things","tag-two-roads-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2288,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions\/2288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}