| Autor: Catherine O'Flynn
Wydawca: Pengiun
Rok wydania: 2011
Okładka: miękka
Ilość stron: 312
ISBN: 978[zasłonięte][zasłonięte]10463
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| Opis: 'Seriously uplifting, hilarious. A funny, moving, acutely observed story about family and loss. A pleasurable, satisfying gem of a novel'
SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
Frank Allcroft, a regional TV news presenter, has just had a ratings boost. His puns, a website declares, make 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 News 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
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