{"id":1745,"date":"2016-10-02T09:07:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T20:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2022-02-01T22:45:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T09:45:21","slug":"billy-bird-emma-neale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2016\/10\/02\/billy-bird-emma-neale\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Bird — Emma Neale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This is a wonderful story of a quirky boy and his family as they go through some funny, tragic, interesting times. The premise is that Billy turns into a bird, or believes he does. But there is a lot more happening around that, and it all makes sense in the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neale is a poet — I bought this book (and others) after hearing her read some of her poetry at the Going West Books and Writers Festival<\/a> last year. So the book is beautifully written and Neale is really able to get into Billy’s head and make him really convincing. There’s a lot of familiar feelings and wisdom for parents of young boys (like me — I mean, I’m a parent, not a young boy, though I was once and still remember a bit about that too). The whole book made me think of Kate de Goldi’s excellent The 10PM Question<\/a><\/cite>, another fine story along similar lines.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a wonderful story of a quirky boy and his family as they go through some funny, tragic, interesting times. The premise is that Billy turns into a bird, or believes he does. But there is a lot more … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,110,19,63],"class_list":["post-1745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-books","tag-emma-neale","tag-new-zealand","tag-novels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4170,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions\/4170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}