{"product_id":"the-news-where-you-are","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.\r\n\r\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.\r\n\r\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.\r\n\r\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.\r\n\r\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. . . \r\n\r\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.\r\n\r\n'Under the wisecracking surface . . . surprisingly profound' The Times\r\n\r\n'A flow of laugh-out-loud satire' Independent on Sunday\r\n\r\n'Awesomely talented' Tatler\r\n\r\n'Seriously uplifting, hilarious. A funny, moving, acutely observed story about family and loss. A pleasurable, satisfying gem of a novel' Scotland on Sunday\r\n\r\n'A blend of Dickens and Alan Bennett. I loved it' Fay Weldon\r\n\r\n'A comic genius' Daily Mail \r\n\r\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":"Catherine O\u0026#39;Flynn","offers":[{"title":"Penguin Books Ltd \/ 26 Dec 2010 \/ 414","offer_id":53543271235925,"sku":"9780141046365","price":3.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0501\/4188\/8668\/files\/9780141046365.webp?v=1774429683","url":"https:\/\/www.bookworld.ie\/products\/the-news-where-you-are","provider":"Book World Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}