{"id":103710,"date":"2025-02-22T17:01:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T17:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/the-knowing-by-madeleine-ryan-annabookbel\/"},"modified":"2025-02-22T17:01:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T17:01:59","slug":"the-knowing-by-madeleine-ryan-annabookbel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=103710","title":{"rendered":"The Knowing by Madeleine Ryan \u2013 AnnaBookBel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Published the week before Valentine\u2019s Day in the UK, not being one to celebrate I\u2019ve delayed my review a bit!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Knowing<\/em><\/strong> is set over the course of one Valentine\u2019s Day, and it follows a Day in the Life and a Life in a Day of Camille, who works in the kind of establishment where Mrs Dalloway would pick up the flowers herself! Yes, she works in an upmarket florists in a posh suburb of Melbourne. <\/p>\n<p>As the novel begins, the first train of Camille\u2019s two train commute is leaving in a few minutes, when she realises she has forgotten her phone. She can\u2019t miss her train and catch the next one, as she\u2019d be late for work, and her boss, Holly, having  reluctantly agreed to a 10am start time would be fuming on their busiest day of the year. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>So Camille\u2019s holding back tears as she finds a seat [\u2026] the train she\u2019s on is leaveing the station, and propelling her deeper into herself; deeper into all of the places she\u2019d rather not go.<br \/>Camille doesn\u2019t have any money now, either.  [\u2026]  She\u2019s probably going to have to ask Holly for help.<br \/>Camille just laughed out loud. Well, she kind of snorted out loud into the void of the shared public space, and no one noticed, because they were all looking at their phones.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>The Knowing<\/em><\/strong> is written in many short chapters or vignettes of mostly 2 or 3 pages, largely alternating between Camille\u2019s work or the things she is thinking of, her hopes and fears for the future, and memories that surface. <\/p>\n<p>We quickly learn that Holly is the boss from hell. A semi-celebrity floral designer, it soon becomes clear that Camille, who is theoretically her second-in-command, is treated as her gopher, her messenger, her lackey. It\u2019s Camille she sends into the warehouse to tell the girls who actually build the bouquets and displays that they won\u2019t be needed after 4pm as Camille will finish up. It\u2019s Camille she sends up to the coffee shop that she just left to collect pastries for some clients who are due. Camille had high hopes for this job, but Holly rarely lets her get close to their clients to show off her own design skills, and she never credits her employees either.<\/p>\n<p>Camille\u2019s long commute is the result of her boyfriend Manny persuading her to move to the country with him. Manny is a poet, so Camille is the main bread-winner; he tells her that she should jack the job in. Despite the commute and awful boss, Camille hasn\u2019t been ready to become a country girl yet.  <\/p>\n<p>What will the rest of Valentine\u2019s Day bring?  It\u2019s going to be stressful, that\u2019s all I can say!<\/p>\n<p>Getting to know Camille was a pleasure. With all the Valentine\u2019s Day connections, I had been worried that the novel might over-egg the romance side of things, but Ryan doesn\u2019t do that at all, other than emphasise the busy-ness at the shop, and  mention Camille\u2019s hopes that Manny will cook a nice meal for them when she eventually gets home, (she has no phone so can\u2019t check in of course).  Even though everything is seen through Camille\u2019s eyes, the awful Holly is all too believable, made up for by lovable Manny.  What an eventful day she has.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/annabookbel.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29979\" style=\"width:176px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/annabookbel.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/annabookbel.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/annabookbel.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image.png?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>In fact I enjoyed reading <em>The Knowing<\/em> so much I ordered a copy of Ryan\u2019s debut <em>A Room Called Earth<\/em>, which also takes place over 24 hrs!  It was while writing her first novel that Ryan discovered her own autism, applying her own experiences to those of her protagonist. I can\u2019t wait to read it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: Review copy \u2013 thank you! <\/strong> Scribe Publications flapped paperback, 256 pages.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-block sd-like jetpack-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded\" id=\"like-post-wrapper-96339042-30011-67ba0306a2af0\" data-src=\"https:\/\/widgets.wp.com\/likes\/?ver=14.0#blog_id=96339042&amp;post_id=30011&amp;origin=annabookbel.net&amp;obj_id=96339042-30011-67ba0306a2af0&amp;n=1\" data-name=\"like-post-frame-96339042-30011-67ba0306a2af0\" data-title=\"Like or Reblog\">\n<h3 class=\"sd-title\">Like this:<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"button\"><span>Like<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"loading\">Loading&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sd-text-color\"\/><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published the week before Valentine\u2019s Day in the UK, not being one to celebrate I\u2019ve delayed my review a bit! 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