{"id":117405,"date":"2019-11-03T14:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/11\/03\/sudden-traveller-by-sarah-hall-review-powerful-and-unsettling\/"},"modified":"2019-11-03T14:00:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T13:00:18","slug":"sudden-traveller-by-sarah-hall-review-powerful-and-unsettling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=117405","title":{"rendered":"Sudden Traveller by Sarah Hall review \u2013 powerful and unsettling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Women contemplate death and punish abusive men in seven highly imaginative storiesDeath stalks the pages of Sarah Hall\u2019s latest collection. In seven lyrical, highly imaginative tales, the novelist and former winner of the BBC national short story award explores grief, mortality, female rage and rituals, both ancient and new.The opener, M, in which a female lawyer wreaks vengeance on abusive men, immerses us in Hall\u2019s fantastical world. The writing is luminous from the first page: \u201cCreatures of flight have put themselves away, under the eaves, down chimneys; raptors are tucked behind bevelled glass spires.\u201d As the protagonist adopts a different physical form \u2013 she sprouts wings and flies \u2013 she visits abusers and punishes them: \u201cAccident. A broken neck. And no postmortem to reveal the delicately evacuated heart.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2019\/nov\/03\/sudden-traveller-sarah-hall-review\" target=\"_blank\">Sudden Traveller by Sarah Hall review \u2013 powerful and unsettling<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women contemplate death and punish abusive men in seven highly imaginative storiesDeath stalks the pages of Sarah Hall\u2019s latest collection. In seven lyrical, highly imaginative tales, the novelist and former winner of the BBC national short story award explores grief, mortality, female rage and rituals, both ancient and new.The opener, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}