{"id":1950,"date":"2007-05-31T22:22:27","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T22:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2007\/05\/z_for_zachariah\/"},"modified":"2007-05-31T22:22:27","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T22:22:27","slug":"z_for_zachariah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/z_for_zachariah\/","title":{"rendered":"Z. for Zachariah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=friday05-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0141300310&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=ffffff&#038;npa=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;IS1=1&#038;f=ifr&#038;bg1=ffffff\" width=\"120\" height=\"240\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t actually know  that Z for Zachariah was actually a book. I remember it as a Play For Today back in the eighties (1984 to be <a href=\"http:\/\/open.bbc.co.uk\/catalogue\/infax\/programme\/LDPF801B\">precise<\/a> &#8211; ah the power of the internet). I remember it starring Anthony Andrews (late of Brideshead) and not a great deal else.<br \/>\nAnyway, my interest was piqued recently when I saw a copy of it pop up on a certain file-sharing site that&#8217;ll remain anonymous. Reading a little more, I learnt that it was based on the novel, so I decided to give it a read.<br \/>\nThen I discovered that the book was actually aimed at children.<br \/>\nOh, and the book has been relocated from North America to Wales. The premise is that there&#8217;s been a nuclear war, and most of the countryside has been ravaged. Yet there&#8217;s a valley that&#8217;s somehow remained unscathed, and in it lives a young girl who&#8217;s now all alone and is tending for herself, running her farm and generally surviving.<br \/>\nOne day a stranger arrives&#8230;<br \/>\nAnd that&#8217;s all I&#8217;ll say. In some respects the novel is more of a novella, but if that premise intrigues you then read this book. Now I must go and catch up on the TV version (shhh&#8230;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t actually know that Z for Zachariah was actually a book. I remember it as a Play For Today back in the eighties (1984 to be precise &#8211; ah the power of the internet). I remember it starring Anthony Andrews (late of Brideshead) and not a great deal else. Anyway, my interest was piqued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}