{"product_id":"catherine-flynn-o-the-news-where-you-are-9780141046365","title":"The News Where You Are","description":"Catherine O'Flynn author of the Man Booker prize winning What Was Lost offers a 'funny moving acutely observed story about family and loss' in The News Where You Are.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nFrank 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.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nBut 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.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nHe 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.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nBecause 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. . .\n\u003cbr\u003e\nVery 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.\n\u003cbr\u003e\n'Under the wisecracking surface . . . surprisingly profound' The Times\n\u003cbr\u003e\n'A flow of laugh-out-loud satire' Independent on Sunday\n\u003cbr\u003e\n'Awesomely talented' Tatler\n\u003cbr\u003e\n'Seriously uplifting hilarious. A funny moving acutely observed story about family and loss. A pleasurable satisfying gem of a novel' Scotland on Sunday\n\u003cbr\u003e\n'A blend of Dickens and Alan Bennett. I loved it' Fay Weldon\n\u003cbr\u003e\n'A comic genius' Daily Mail\n\u003cbr\u003e\nCatherine 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.","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53269281341782,"sku":"9780141046365-G","price":1.7,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780141046365_1_d816934a-3601-41dc-9c41-a5507882cc8d.jpg?v=1782341393","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/catherine-flynn-o-the-news-where-you-are-9780141046365","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}