{"id":1265,"date":"2026-05-11T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2026-05-11T17:07:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:07:00","slug":"this-intricate-novel-is-written-from-the-perspective-of-a-compulsive-liar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=1265","title":{"rendered":"This Intricate Novel Is Written from the Perspective of a Compulsive Liar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/17168\/aea-varfis-van-warmelo-attention-seeking-behaviour-interview?utm_source=Linkamp;utm_medium=Linkamp;utm_campaign=RSSFeedamp;utm_term=this-intricate-novel-is-written-from-the-perspective-of-a-compulsive-liar\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/786\/azure\/another-prod\/470\/3\/473207.jpg\" alt=\"AeaVvW_Naomi Joanne Delorme2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Plenty of authors have toyed with their readers by writing from the perspective of an unreliable narrator. But <strong>Aea Varfis-van Warmelo<\/strong><\/span><strong> <\/strong><span>takes the idea a step further in her impressive debut novel, <strong>Attention-Seeking Behaviour<\/strong>. Her narrator, unnamed for most of the novel, admits early on that she is a liar. As she describes a suspicious number of dead bodies, her mind-numbing job assisting the demanding CEO of a PR company,hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/17168\/aea-varfis-van-warmelo-attention-seeking-behaviour-interview?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=this-intricate-novel-is-written-from-the-perspective-of-a-compulsive-liar\">read more raquo;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plenty of authors have toyed with their readers by writing from the perspective of an unreliable narrator. But Aea Varfis-van Warmelo takes the idea a step further in her impressive debut novel, Attention-Seeking Behaviour. Her narrator, unnamed for most of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}