{"id":28184,"date":"2015-04-11T06:30:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T18:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=28184"},"modified":"2015-04-09T20:22:19","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T08:22:19","slug":"just-arrived-the-chimes-by-anna-smaill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/04\/11\/just-arrived-the-chimes-by-anna-smaill\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Arrived: “The Chimes” by Anna Smaill"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Chimes_The\"<\/a>The TBR table, discussed here<\/a>, is still moderately high; nonetheless, I am very excited that Anna Smaill’s The Chimes<\/em><\/strong> (Sceptre, 2015) has arrived.<\/p>\n

Not least because Anna Smaill is a fellow New Zealand author—but most importantly because the story sounds fascinating.<\/p>\n

Here’s what the back cover has to tell us:<\/p>\n

“A boy stands on the roadside on his way to London, alone in the rain. <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

No memories, beyond what he can hold in his hands at any given moment. No directions, as written words have long since been forbidden.\u00a0<\/i>No parents\u2014just a melody that tugs at him, a thread to follow. A song that says if he can just get to the capital, he may find some answers about what happened to them.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The world around Simon sings, each movement a pulse of rhythm, each object weaving its own melody, music ringing in every drop of air.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Welcome to the world of <\/i>The Chimes<\/strong>. Here, life is orchestrated by a vast musical instrument that renders people unable to form new memories. The past is a mystery, each new day feels the same as the last, and <\/i>before is blasphony.<\/i><\/span><\/span>But slowly, inexplicably, Simon is beginning to remember. He emerges from sleep each morning with a pricking feeling, and sense there is something he urgently has to do. In the city Simon meets Lucien, who has a gift for hearing, some secrets of his own, and a theory about the danger lurking in Simon’s past.”
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There’s already been a lot of buzz about this book so I’m looking forward to delving further and finding out what it’s all about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The TBR table, discussed here, is still moderately high; nonetheless, I am very excited that Anna Smaill’s The Chimes (Sceptre, 2015) has arrived. Not least because Anna Smaill is a fellow New Zealand author—but most importantly because the story sounds fascinating. Here’s what the back cover has to tell us: “A boy stands on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justarrived"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28184"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28750,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28184\/revisions\/28750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}