The News Where You Are

Seriously uplifting, hilarious. A funny, moving, acutely observed story about family and loss. A pleasurable, satisfying gem of a novel- SCOTLAND ON SUNDAYFrank Allcroft, a regional TV news presenter, has just had a ratings boost. His puns, a website declares, make him the unfunniest man on Gods Earth. Mortified colleagues wonder how he stands being a public joke. But Frank doesnt 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, hes 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 cant, what has gone and whats 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