{"id":9253,"date":"2018-04-09T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=9253"},"modified":"2018-04-07T17:49:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T22:49:57","slug":"h-hoarder-mom-hateful-mom-no-more-home-in-behind-closed-doors-by-miriam-halahmy-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=9253","title":{"rendered":"H for hoarder mom + hateful mom= no more home in Behind Closed Doors, by Miriam Halahmy (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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UK cover<\/p><\/div>

\"US

US cover<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

One mom chooses stuff, stuff, stuff<\/a> over her own daughter (and goes to jail for tax evasion).<\/p>\n

One mom chooses her boyfriend over her own daughter (and he tries to have them both).<\/p>\n

Then Mum’s so-called friends arrive to find valuables among the masses of stuff at Josie’s house (and won’t leave!)<\/p>\n

How can almost-friends Josie and Tasha stay safe when neither home is a safe place to be?<\/p>\n

Read the first chapters here<\/a> free, courtesy of the US publisher, to meet Josie and Tasha as their home lives fall apart and the British teens have to fend for themselves together.<\/p>\n

Publishing in the UK this summer – which cover speaks to you?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: Behind Closed Doors \/ Miriam Halahmy. Holiday House, 2017 (US); Firefly Books, 2018 (UK). [author site<\/a>] [US publisher site<\/a>] [UK publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and US cover image courtesy of Holiday House; UK cover image courtesy of Firefly Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One mom chooses stuff, stuff, stuff over her own daughter (and goes to jail for tax evasion). One mom chooses her boyfriend over her own daughter (and he tries to have them both). Then Mum’s so-called friends arrive to find valuables among the masses of stuff at Josie’s house (and won’t leave!) How can almost-friends […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[10,203,22,20,5,70,16,32,18,44,43,39,27,49,184,31,15,9,21,35,33,3],"class_list":["post-9253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-a2z","tag-abuse","tag-behavior","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-crime","tag-determination","tag-england","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-medical","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-non-us-author","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Behind-Closed-Doors-US.jpg?fit=200%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9253"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9375,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253\/revisions\/9375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}