{"id":262,"date":"2022-08-25T11:15:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T01:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/?p=262"},"modified":"2022-08-25T11:15:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T01:15:08","slug":"the-safe-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"The Safe Place"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/19212025.Anna_Downes\">Anna Downes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>July 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Emily is a mess.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emily Proudman just lost her acting agent, her job, and her apartment in one miserable day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Emily is desperate.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scott Denny, a successful and charismatic CEO, has a problem that neither his business acumen nor vast wealth can fix. Until he meets Emily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Emily is perfect.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scott offers Emily a summer job as a housekeeper on his remote, beautiful French estate. Enchanted by his lovely wife Nina, and his eccentric young daughter, Aurelia, Emily falls headlong into this oasis of wine-soaked days by the pool. But soon Emily realizes that Scott and Nina are hiding dangerous secrets, and if she doesn&#8217;t play along, the consequences could be deadly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Superbly tense and oozing with atmosphere, Anna Downs&#8217;s debut is the perfect summer suspense, with the modern gothic feel of Ruth Ware and the morally complex family dynamics of Lisa Jewell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome to paradise&#8230;will you ever be able to leave?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Review:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I found this quite sad, beautifully written and gripping from the outset but the ending wasn&#8217;t what I expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Downes July 2020 About: Emily is a mess. Emily Proudman just lost her acting agent, her job, and her apartment in one miserable day. Emily is desperate. Scott Denny, a successful and charismatic CEO, has a problem that neither his business acumen nor vast wealth can fix. Until he meets Emily. Emily is perfect. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}