Mr Lynch's Holiday

Literature & Fiction

O'Flynn, Catherine

Humor & Satire

Penguin

A lost little girl with a notebook and toy monkey appears on the CCTV screen of the Green Oaks shopping centre, evoking memories of junior detective, Kate Meaney, missing for twenty years. Kurt, a security guard with a sleep disorder and Lisa, a disenchanted deputy manager at Your Music, together become entranced by the little girl they keep glimpsing on the security cameras. As Kurt and Lisa’s after-hours friendship grows in intensity, it brings new loss and new longing to light.

What Was Lost

World Literature

Anchor Canada

The News Where You Are

A heartbreaking, yet hilarious, novel from the author of the best-selling, prize-winning What Was Lost. The News Where You Are tells the funny, touching story of Frank, a local TV news presenter in England. Beneath his awkwardly corny screen persona, Frank is haunted by disappearances: the mysterious hit-and-run that killed his predecessor Phil Smethway; the demolition of his father's post-war brutalist architecture; and the unmarked passing of those who die alone in the city. Frank struggles to make sense of these absences whilst having to report endless local news stories and trying to cope with his resolutely miserable mother. The result is that rare thing: a page-turning novel that asks the big questions in an accessible way, and is laugh-out-loud funny, genuinely moving and ultimately uplifting.

Bond Street Books

A heartbreaking, yet hilarious, novel from the author of the best-selling, prize-winning What Was Lost.The News Where You Are tells the funny, touching story of Frank, a local TV news presenter in England. Beneath his awkwardly corny screen persona, Frank is haunted by disappearances: the mysterious hit-and-run that killed his predecessor Phil Smethway; the demolition of his father's post-war brutalist architecture; and the unmarked passing of those who die alone in the city. Frank struggles to make sense of these absences whilst having to report endless local news stories and trying to cope with his resolutely miserable mother. The result is that rare thing: a page-turning novel that asks the big questions in an accessible way, and is laugh-out-loud funny, genuinely moving and ultimately uplifting.From the Hardcover edition.

Penguin??Books

Contemporary

Isis Large Print

As a presenter on Midlands TV's regional news, Frank Allcroft is a long way from journalism's cutting edge. Saddled with a gag-writer and limp one-liners, Frank is now officially "the unfunniest man on God's earth" and a local legend. It's not quite the career that he envisioned, but Frank thinks there are more important things in life: his wife Andrea, his mother Maureen and his daughter Mo. But as Frank reflects on his late father's legacy and the unexplained death of a much loved colleague, an unusual news report catches his eye. Compelled to investigate further, he finds the familiar concerns of middle age falling into perspective as he uncovers a bizarre and tragic tale of thwarted hopes...

What Was Lost Lib/E

Genre Fiction

Blackstone Publishing

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