{"id":70425,"date":"2017-03-22T16:59:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T05:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/?p=70425"},"modified":"2017-03-22T16:59:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T05:59:59","slug":"heart-wrenching-thats-doll-funeral-heart-wrenching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2017\/03\/22\/heart-wrenching-thats-doll-funeral-heart-wrenching\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart-wrenching. That\u2019s what The Doll Funeral is. Heart-wrenching."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/the-doll-funeral-kate-hamer\/prod9780571334421.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-70437 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Hamer-222-top-banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"672\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Heart-wrenching. That\u2019s what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/the-doll-funeral-kate-hamer\/prod9780571334421.html\"><em>The Doll Funeral<\/em><\/a> is. Heart-wrenching.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure what to do with this sad, hollow, residual feeling that\u2019s come from reading this book, but I know I\u2019ll remember the power of this novel from Kate Hamer long into the future.<\/p>\n<p>Thirteen-year-old Ruby is an engaging character, and from the moment her adoptive father&#8217;s fist first came down on her, I was fuming and rooting for this brave young girl to escape and find her real parents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/the-doll-funeral-kate-hamer\/prod9780571334421.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-70434 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/hammer-in-blog-pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"647\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hamer\u2019s language is enticing, bringing a unique view into the world. Through Ruby\u2019s singular experiences, I found myself blissfully confused, as if my understanding was shrouded in an eerie mist. Everything was uncertain &#8211;\u00a0from her unconventional past to the unearthly Shadow character that followed her around, seemingly her only friend, until she meets Tom, Elizabeth and Crispin &#8211; siblings abandoned by their aloof parents.<\/p>\n<p>The passages with the siblings were the strongest emotional scenes for me. A strange mixture of fear and sympathy flooded off the pages, and as an adult not long out of childhood, I desperately wished for someone, anyone, to take care of them.<\/p>\n<p>Hamer managed to render extremely inconceivable situations intensely familiar, as if I were Ruby or Tom or Elizabeth. If you\u2019re looking for a highly engrossing story that will really make you <em>feel<\/em>, then <em>The\u00a0Doll\u00a0Funeral<\/em>\u00a0is for you.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"The Doll Funeral | The new novel from Kate Hamer\" width=\"1250\" height=\"703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zuT8YiS8DkY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heart-wrenching. That\u2019s what The Doll Funeral is. Heart-wrenching. I\u2019m not sure what to do with this sad, hollow, residual feeling that\u2019s come from reading this book, but I know I\u2019ll remember the power of this novel from Kate Hamer long into the future. Thirteen-year-old Ruby is an engaging character, and from the moment her adoptive father&#8217;s fist first came down on her, I was fuming and rooting for this brave young girl to escape and find her real parents. Hamer\u2019s language is enticing, bringing a unique view into the world. Through Ruby\u2019s singular experiences, I found myself blissfully confused, as if my understanding was shrouded in an eerie mist. Everything was uncertain &#8211;\u00a0from her unconventional past to the unearthly Shadow character that followed her around, seemingly her only friend, until she meets Tom, Elizabeth and Crispin &#8211; siblings abandoned by their aloof parents. The passages with the siblings were the strongest emotional scenes for me. A strange mixture of fear and sympathy flooded off the pages, and as an adult not long out of childhood, I desperately wished for someone, anyone, to take care of them. Hamer managed to render extremely inconceivable situations intensely familiar, as if I were Ruby&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":70432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[24,6678,6764],"tags":[7354,4482,7353,6148],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Hamer-social-440-x-239.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70425"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70439,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70425\/revisions\/70439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}