{"id":1613,"date":"2018-12-03T12:30:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T12:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2019-01-24T12:56:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T12:56:20","slug":"mst-alumna-daisy-johnsons-everything-under-on-guardian-and-lithubs-books-of-the-year-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1613","title":{"rendered":"MSt alumna Daisy Johnson&#8217;s &#8220;Everything Under&#8221; on Guardian and Lithub&#8217;s Books of the Year lists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.penguin.co.uk\/content\/dam\/prh\/books\/111\/1110035\/9781784702113.jpg.transform\/PRHDesktopWide_small\/image.jpg?resize=254%2C387&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"254\" height=\"387\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MSt alumna Daisy Johnson&#8217;s Booker-shortlisted novel <em>Everything Under<\/em> is one of the Guardian&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/ng-interactive\/2018\/dec\/01\/guardian-review-best-books-of-2018?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0Jvb2ttYXJrcy0xODEyMDI%3D&amp;utm_source=esp&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;utm_campaign=Bookmarks&amp;CMP=bookmarks_email\">Best Books of the Year<\/a>&#8220;, and one of Lithub&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/lit-hubs-favorite-books-of-2018\/\"> Favourite Books of 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSt alumna Daisy Johnson&#8217;s Booker-shortlisted novel Everything Under is one of the Guardian&#8217;s &#8220;Best Books of the Year&#8220;, and one of Lithub&#8217;s Favourite Books of 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni_news","category-publications"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p40Qhf-q1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1860,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1860","url_meta":{"origin":1613,"position":0},"title":"MSt alumna Daisy Johnson&#8217;s novel &#8220;Sisters&#8221; reviewed in the Observer, New York Times.","author":"MSt Creative Writing","date":"September 21, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"MSt alumna Daisy Johnson's novel Sisters was reviewed in the Observer, and in the New York Times. 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