{"id":471,"date":"2017-08-30T17:08:11","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T17:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/?page_id=471"},"modified":"2021-10-13T15:34:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T15:34:49","slug":"punch","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/?page_id=471","title":{"rendered":"Punch"},"content":{"rendered":"

PUNCH<\/em> is a Victorian boy-on the run adventure, with a bit of a murder story thrown in, too. It’s based on some real events in 1889.<\/span><\/h4>\n

Here is some of the beautiful artwork I have seen in Scottish schools, inspired by this book!<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>I’m really excited – I love Victorian times, I love Scotland, I love puppetry and performance.<\/p>\n

This story combines all of these, but also features an escaped prisoner and a dancing bear, with a bit of a murder story thrown in for good measure. Best of all, it begins with a real event: a huge fire which destroyed the Victorian market halls in Inverness in 1889.<\/p>\n

My hero, 12-year-old Phineas, finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Here is a flavour of what happens:<\/p>\n

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Available to order from Waterstones,<\/a>\u00a0Amazon, and all good bookshops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PUNCH is a Victorian boy-on the run adventure, with a bit of a murder story thrown in, too. It’s based on some real events in 1889. Here is some of the beautiful artwork I have seen in Scottish schools, inspired by this book! I’m really excited – I love Victorian times, I love Scotland, I … Continue reading Punch<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-471","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1371,"href":"https:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/471\/revisions\/1371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}