{"id":7915,"date":"2015-02-16T14:41:16","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T14:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=7915"},"modified":"2025-11-25T22:53:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T22:53:35","slug":"the-lost-art-of-sinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/02\/the-lost-art-of-sinking\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lost Art of Sinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some call it the Fainting Game, others Indian Headrush &#8211; but it\u2019s all the rage amongst the girls of Class 2B. \u201cIt makes you go all rushy. You feel like you\u2019re falling into a dream.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is the story of Esther, who lives in the Pennines with her father. Esther is obsessed with experimenting with different ways to pass out: from snorting Daz powder at school to attempted autoasphyxiation in a serviced apartment in north London. But what happens when you take something too far? And what has Esther\u2019s mother, a beautiful dancer wasting away in her bedroom, to do with it all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lost Art of Sinking is a dark comedy about losing yourself. Sensual, funny and exquisitely written, this bold novella introduces a fresh new literary voice in Naomi Booth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[173,4,31,171],"tags":[119,97,115,163,109,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7915"}],"version-history":[{"count":56,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16469,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7915\/revisions\/16469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}