{"id":83,"date":"2022-02-28T23:20:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T23:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sylviacolley.co.uk\/?page_id=83"},"modified":"2022-03-01T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T15:45:00","slug":"ask-me-to-dance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sylviacolley.co.uk\/?page_id=83","title":{"rendered":"Ask Me to Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:37%\">\n<div id=\"section-g2826c1\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-e6 section-g2826c1 gutentor-element gutentor-element-image gutentor-enabled-width text-align-left-desktop\"><div class=\"gutentor-element-image-box\"><div class=\"gutentor-bg-image\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p>Rose Gregory has suffered a devastating blow, a double bereavement from which months later she is still reeling. Sanctuary and rest are prescribed by her doctor. But when she arrives at her refuge, a dank and decaying Monastery, she finds it is not the haven promised. Despite the veneer of calm contemplation, the Monastery turns out to be a hotbed of intrigue and disharmony. Rose witnesses bullying and cruelty and ultimately in defence of the vulnerable turns to violence herself. Sylvia Colley&#8217;s extraordinary understanding of a woman&#8217;s struggle to deal with grief, the denial, the anger, the loneliness, is described without sentimentality. A beautifully written and moving story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Published 2018 by Muswell Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"section-g2bbe2f\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-e2 section-g2bbe2f gutentor-element gutentor-element-button\"><span class=\"gutentor-button-wrap\"><a class=\"gutentor-button gutentor-block-button gutentor-icon-hide\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/1999811704\/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_2AYA39N4S55Z4VCZM6DW\"><i class=\"gutentor-button-icon fas fa-book\"><\/i><span>BUY ON AMAZON<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Ask-Me-Dance-Sylvia-Colley\/dp\/1999811704\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1526936127&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=ask+me+to+dance\">Buy Ask Me To Dance at Amazon Uk<\/a>&nbsp;or go to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/39652259-ask-me-to-dance\">Goodreads<\/a>&nbsp;for any other retailer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rose Gregory has suffered a devastating blow, a double bereavement from which months later she is still reeling. Sanctuary and rest are prescribed by her doctor. But when she arrives at her refuge, a dank and decaying Monastery, she finds it is not the haven promised. Despite the veneer of calm contemplation, the Monastery turns &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sylviacolley.co.uk\/?page_id=83\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ask Me to Dance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":67,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"inspiro_hide_title":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-83","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ask Me to Dance - Sylvia Colley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sylviacolley.co.uk\/?page_id=83\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ask Me to Dance - Sylvia Colley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rose Gregory has suffered a devastating blow, a double bereavement from which months later she is still reeling. 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