{"id":274,"date":"2013-01-20T11:56:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T18:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jacobpolley.com\/news\/?page_id=274"},"modified":"2016-01-01T15:59:45","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T22:59:45","slug":"talk-of-the-town","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jacobpolley.com\/news\/talk-of-the-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk of the Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1292\" src=\"http:\/\/jacobpolley.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Talk-of-the-Town-1.jpg\" alt=\"Talk of the Town\" width=\"217\" height=\"329\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>Winner 2010 Somerset Maugham Award<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>Short-listed for the Desmond Elliott Prize<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8216;It is one of the many achievements of\u00c2\u00a0<em>Talk of the Town<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0that, as we read, we hope he will emerge, if not physically unscathed, then at least not so emotionally damaged that he sinks permanently into the grim rictus of cool.&#8217; ~ <strong>The\u00c2\u00a0<em>Guardian<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Buy<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">&#8216;<\/span><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/0330445456\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=0330445456&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=jacobpolleyco-21\" target=\"_blank\">Talk of the Town<\/a>&#8216;<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">from\u00c2\u00a0Amazon<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winner 2010 Somerset Maugham Award Short-listed for the Desmond Elliott Prize &#8216;It is one of the many achievements of\u00c2\u00a0Talk of the Town\u00c2\u00a0that, as we read, we hope he will emerge, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - 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