{"id":4848,"date":"2026-05-19T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ondbookshelf.com\/?p=4848"},"modified":"2026-04-06T18:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T22:19:06","slug":"mad-mabel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ondbookshelf.com\/?p=4848","title":{"rendered":"Mad Mabel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>My review:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My favorite of Hepworth\u2019s books thus far (and I\u2019ve read them all)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love a book with an older protagonist, and Elsie (Mabel) was perfect. One minute I was chortling with laughter and a few pages later I wanted to cry for her. The sense of found family after a childless and difficult upbringing was such a delight. All of the side characters were well constructed and filled out, especially darling Persephone. I really liked how the story was constructed, alternating between Mabel\u2019s childhood and her present life. I never saw the ending coming (especially one part), and I may have gasped when I read it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such a well rounded read and one that I couldn\u2019t put down! I listened to the audio and the narrators did a great job voicing Elsie\/Mabel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.ondbookshelf.com\/?p=4848\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My review: My favorite of Hepworth\u2019s books thus far (and I\u2019ve read them all)! I love a book with an older protagonist, and Elsie (Mabel) was perfect. One minute I was chortling with laughter and a few pages later I wanted to cry for her. The sense of found family after a childless and difficult <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ondbookshelf.com\/?p=4848\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Mad Mabel\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reviews","8":"h-entry","9":"hentry","10":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ondbookshelf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_0668.jpeg?fit=987%2C1500&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p50Bh0-1gc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ondbookshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ondbookshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ondbookshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ondbookshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ondbookshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ondbookshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4851,"href":"https:\/\/www.ondbookshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848\/revisions\/4851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ondbookshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ondbookshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ondbookshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ondbookshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}