{"id":246,"date":"2020-01-15T13:44:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T13:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/?p=246"},"modified":"2020-01-15T13:53:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T13:53:04","slug":"rose-interrupted-by-patrice-lawrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/2020\/01\/15\/rose-interrupted-by-patrice-lawrence\/","title":{"rendered":"Rose, interrupted by Patrice Lawrence"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 326px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51WLlKqShWL._SX324_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" width=\"326\" height=\"499\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rose, interrupted by Patrice Lawrence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Being a teenager is hard enough, but it&#8217;s even harder in a world you&#8217;ve never known &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Eighteen months ago, 17-year-old Rose and 13-year-old Rudder escaped a strict religious sect with their mum. They are still trying to make sense of the world outside &#8211; no more rules about clothes and books, films and music, no more technology bans. But also no more friendship with the people they&#8217;ve known all their lives, no community and no certainty. It doesn&#8217;t help that their mum has to work all hours to pay rent on their cramped, smelly, one-bed flat above a kebab shop in Hackney.<\/p>\n<p>While Rudder gorges on once-taboo Harry Potters and dances to Simon and Garfunkel and show tunes, Rose swaps the ankle skirts and uncut hair of the Woodford Pilgrims for Japanese-cute fairy dress and her new boyfriend, Kye. Kye, who she wants with all her being. But there&#8217;s loads of scary stuff about their new life that Rose and Rudder have no idea how to handle &#8211; it&#8217;s normal for girls to let their boyfriends take naked pictures of them, right?<\/p>\n<p>When Rudder accidently sets a devastating chain of events into action, Rose must decide whether to sacrifice everything and go back to the life she hates, in order to save the people she loves.<\/p>\n<p>A story about coming of age, slap-bang in the middle of a strange new world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a teenager is hard enough, but it&#8217;s even harder in a world you&#8217;ve never known &#8230; Eighteen months ago, 17-year-old Rose and 13-year-old Rudder escaped a strict religious sect with their mum. They are still trying to make sense of the world outside &#8211; no more rules about clothes and books, films and music, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/2020\/01\/15\/rose-interrupted-by-patrice-lawrence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rose, interrupted by Patrice Lawrence&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}