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The News Where You Are
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Description
Frank 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.
But 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.
He 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.
Because 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. . .
Very funny warm and moving The New Where You Are is a story of family friendship and trying to reconnect with the past before it is gone.
'Under the wisecracking surface . . . surprisingly profound' The Times
'A flow of laugh-out-loud satire' Independent on Sunday
'Awesomely talented' Tatler
'Seriously uplifting hilarious. A funny moving acutely observed story about family and loss. A pleasurable satisfying gem of a novel' Scotland on Sunday
'A blend of Dickens and Alan Bennett. I loved it' Fay Weldon
'A comic genius' Daily Mail
Catherine 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.
Product details
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Edition:
- 1
- Number of Pages:
- 320
- Release Date:
- 2010-12-26
- Publication Date:
- 2010-12-26
- Publisher:
- Penguin
- Languages:
- Published: English, Original: English
- ISBN10:
- 0141046368
- GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
- [email protected]
- Minimum Reading Age:
- 0
- Weight:
- 500 g
- Height:
- 19.8 cm
- Width:
- 12.9 cm
- Thickness:
- 3.5 cm
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The items bear minimal signs of past use, such as light scratches or memories in the form of markings. These signs of wear give the items a charming character and tell stories of their previous owners, while not affecting their functionality.
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