{"id":182,"date":"2013-03-10T16:27:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T16:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/connect\/?p=182"},"modified":"2026-03-15T10:25:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T10:25:49","slug":"lunasa-at-dawn-by-adrian-lavelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/lunasa-at-dawn-by-adrian-lavelle\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Lun\u00e1sa at Dawn&#8221; by Adrian Lavelle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"359\" src=\"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/screenshot.113.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/screenshot.113.jpg 275w, https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/screenshot.113-230x300.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<h3>Overview<\/h3>\n<p>There is beauty in pain. Lun\u00e1sa at Dawn captures that truism, as the would-be lovers watch their lives turn well more dramatic than they would have wanted. After a fairly troublefree childhood, they experience growing pains as young adults in old-times Ireland.<br \/>\nAdrian Lavelle&#8217;s tale follows a fine tradition of storytelling: The human spirit and the physical environment raise our expectations, which are then thoroughly tested by unreasonable societal norms and customs.<\/p>\n<p>Published by Novelty Fiction on March 10, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>12 pages. Available in PDF format via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/adrian-lavelle\/lun\u00c3\u00a1sa-at-dawn\/ebook\/product-20740491.html\">Lulu<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview There is beauty in pain. Lun\u00e1sa at Dawn captures that truism, as the would-be lovers watch their lives turn well more dramatic than they would have wanted. After a fairly troublefree childhood, they experience growing pains as young adults in old-times Ireland. Adrian Lavelle&#8217;s tale follows a fine tradition of storytelling: The human spirit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-transparent-header":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-stories","tag-adrian-lavelle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}