{"product_id":"news-where-you-are-book-catherine-o-flynn-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.  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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49527732535569,"sku":"GOR002368758","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50345567551761,"sku":"CIN0141046368G","price":4.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53374315495697,"sku":"GOR002380126","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0141046368.jpg?v=1750908118","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/news-where-you-are-book-catherine-o-flynn-9780141046365","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}