{"product_id":"catherine-oflynn-the-news-where-you-are-2010-paperback","title":"Catherine O'Flynn: The News Where You Are [2010] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eCatherine O'Flynn, author of the Man Booker prize winning \u003ci\u003eWhat Was Lost\u003c\/i\u003e offers a 'funny, moving, acutely observed story about family and loss' in \u003ci\u003eThe News Where You Are.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrank Allcroft, a regional TV news presenter, has just had a ratings boost. His puns, a website declares, makes him 'the unfunniest man on God's Earth'. Mortified colleagues wonder how he stands being a public joke.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut Frank doesn't mind. As long as Andrea and Mo, his wife and eight-year-old daughter, are happy, who gives a stuff what others think? Besides, Frank has a couple of other matters on his mind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe has taken to investigating the death of Phil, his (actually quite funny) predecessor, killed in a mysterious hit and run six months ago. Also, he's telling Mo about the architect grandfather she never met by taking her to see vanished and soon-to-be-vanished buildings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBecause Frank knows that it is between what we see and what we can't, what has gone and what's left behind, that the answers lie. . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVery funny, warm and moving, \u003ci\u003eThe New Where You Are\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of family, friendship and trying to reconnect with the past before it is gone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Under the wisecracking surface . . . surprisingly profound' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A flow of laugh-out-loud satire' \u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Awesomely talented' \u003ci\u003eTatler\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Seriously uplifting, hilarious. A funny, moving, acutely observed story about family and loss. A pleasurable, satisfying gem of a novel' \u003ci\u003eScotland on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A blend of Dickens and Alan Bennett. I loved it' Fay Weldon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A comic genius' \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCatherine O'Flynn was born in 1970 and raised in Birmingham, the youngest of six children. Her parents ran a sweet shop. She worked briefly in journalism, then at a series of shopping centres. She has also been a web editor, a postwoman and a mystery shopper.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"O'flynn, Catherine","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":50629720408403,"sku":"9780141046365","price":22.1,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":50629720441171,"sku":"XV80141046365","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/o-flynn-catherine-catherine-o-flynn-the-news-where-you-are-2010-paperback-1151183879.jpg?v=1742771137","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/catherine-oflynn-the-news-where-you-are-2010-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}