{"id":1756,"date":"2017-01-18T11:33:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T16:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2017-01-18T11:50:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T16:50:40","slug":"1756-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/1756-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Life of Roberta Greaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/birchbook\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1759\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/1756-2\/birchbook\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/birchbook.jpg?fit=139%2C197&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"139,197\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"birchbook\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/birchbook.jpg?fit=139%2C197&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-1759 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/birchbook.jpg?resize=216%2C306\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a>The Secret Life of Roberta Greaves<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>by Ann Birch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0A Review <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With delicious wit and irony, Ann Birch tells the story of Roberta Greaves, a professor of classic literature at Trinity College. Roberta compromises her moral principles and her professional integrity in order to raise money to cover her dead husband\u2019s debts.<\/p>\n<p>No, she doesn\u2019t deal drugs or sleep with the Dean. She writes a sleazy, steamy novel\u2014a work of pure crap. She gets the idea from a story of lust and incest told in classical literature by Ovid, the Roman poet. \u00a0Myrrha of Ovid\u2019s tale becomes Mira, the heroine of Roberta\u2019s pulp. It sells, big time.<\/p>\n<p>Her success has serious negative repercussions, and Roberta deeply regrets what she has done, even though the project achieves its purpose. \u00a0She must hide her connection to <em>Mira<\/em> from her family and colleagues. She is in danger of losing everything she loves if she is found out and if she isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Supported by those who love her, Roberta makes her way through the mess of deceit and loss to a place where she sees a way to redeem herself.\u00a0 The book has a spectacularly happy ending. Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>by Isobel Raven<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Secret Life of Roberta Greaves by Ann Birch \u00a0A Review With delicious wit and irony, Ann Birch tells the story of Roberta Greaves, a professor of classic literature at Trinity College. Roberta compromises her moral principles and her professional integrity in order to raise money to cover her dead husband\u2019s debts. No, she doesn\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/1756-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Secret Life of Roberta Greaves<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8RivX-sk","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1761,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions\/1761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}