{"id":465,"date":"2020-02-10T01:37:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T01:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/?p=465"},"modified":"2020-12-21T10:13:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T10:13:06","slug":"monsoons-and-marigolds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/showcase\/monsoons-and-marigolds\/","title":{"rendered":"Monsoons and Marigolds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2WiDgyL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/monsoons-and-marigolds-cover-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/monsoons-and-marigolds-cover-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/monsoons-and-marigolds-cover.jpg 314w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Monsoons and Marigolds <\/em>is a novel about stories: those we are told; those we tell to others; and those we tell to ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colette Bryce is a survivor. As she unpacks a trunk, memories gather momentum and the past and present collide. Colette re-lives her hopes and aspirations, her love affairs, betrayal and capture by Maoists leaving us with the question: What would you do to survive?\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Monsoons and Marigolds <\/em>is set in Nepal amidst the political turmoil and civil unrest of 1997\/8. On the wide canvas the novel touches on poverty, displacement, sex slavery, AIDS and political ideals. But the fine brush strokes come from the perspective of a conflicted individual struggling for a sense of belonging in an alien culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Monsoons and Marigolds<\/em> was Highly Commended for the Luke Bitmead Bursary Award in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-green-background-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2WiDgyL\" style=\"border-radius:10px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy on Amazon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monsoons and Marigolds is a novel about stories: those we are told; those we tell to others; and those we tell to ourselves. Colette Bryce is a survivor. As she unpacks a trunk, memories gather momentum and the past and present collide. Colette re-lives her hopes and aspirations, her love affairs, betrayal and capture by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/showcase\/monsoons-and-marigolds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monsoons and Marigolds<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72],"tags":[86],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595,"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}