{"id":11911,"date":"2016-04-20T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T05:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=11911"},"modified":"2016-03-13T07:50:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T12:50:28","slug":"q-is-for-quentins-atozchallenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=11911","title":{"rendered":"Q is for Quentins #AtoZChallenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-MCvcdsP4dyI\/VsOnnKHqRlI\/AAAAAAAAWbM\/iJwPzEUqyQQ\/s1600\/Q.jpg\" alt=\"Quentins\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #361170;\">Q is for Quentins by Maeve Binchy<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1169806796l\/41950.jpg\" alt=\"Quentins\" width=\"294\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Blurb (from Goodreads):<\/strong> <span id=\"freeText12624926881270945604\">Is it possible to tell the story of a generation and a city through the history of a restaurant?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ella Brady thinks so. She wants to film a documentary about Quentins that will capture the spirit of Dublin from the 1970s to the present day. And Quentins has a thousand stories to tell: tales of love, of betrayal, of revenge; of times when it looked ready for success and times when it seemed as if it must close in failure. But as Ella uncovers more of what has gone on at Quentins, she begins to wonder whether some secrets should be kept that way&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>With Quentins, Maeve Binchy follows her bestselling Scarlet Feather with a new book that delivers the hallmark storytelling that has kept millions of her readers happy for more than twenty years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q is for Quentins by Maeve Binchy &nbsp; Blurb (from Goodreads): Is it possible to tell the story of a generation and a city through the history of a restaurant? Ella Brady thinks so. 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