Books
by Catherine O'Flynn
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The News Where You Are |
O'Flynn's second novel is pitched against the background of Birmingham's legendary town planning and regional news programme. There is plot but its focus and beauty is the sensitive depiction of ordinary life through the vivid portrayal of Frank, a likeable news presenter, his family, colleagues and acquaintances. Despite his notoriety for bad jokes, Frank is prone to melancholy musings, illustrated by his obsessions over solitary deaths (think Eleanor Rigby). An easy, compelling read, witty and always poignant.
(Rebecca Howell - bwl 61 Summer 2011) |
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What Was Lost |
Kate is a lonely child of 10 who devotes her entire daytime hours when not in school studying to be a detective, using the book her beloved father gave her as a guide and her favourite toy monkey as companion and accomplice. It is this devotion to duty which shapes her future, and unravelling her mystery pulls in an assembly of disparate people all concerned with the local shopping centre. Extremely well written and unputdownable!
(Julie Higgins - bwl 45 April 2008) |
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