{"product_id":"news-where-you-are","title":"News Where You Are","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":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54234156925272,"sku":"9780141046365","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780141046365.jpg?v=1769241643","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/news-where-you-are","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}