{"product_id":"white-city-blue-by-tim-lott","title":"White City Blue by Tim Lott","description":"\u003cspan\u003eWinner of the 1999 Whitbread First Novel Award `Beautiful and brilliant' Tony Parsons Estate agent Frankie Blue is known on his home turf - White City, Shepherd's Bush - as `Frank the Fib'. He's a liar - but one who always tries to tell the truth. Frankie has been friends with Diamond Tony, a hairdresser, Colin, a computer nerd, and Nodge, a cabbie, since schooldays.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNow they are thirty and trying to live the same life as they did then - drinking, girls, banter, football. Then comes Frankie's Great Betrayal - Veronica, and marriage, his ticket to a bigger, better grown-up world. From the moment he tells his mates, the whole patchwork of their friendships begins to collapse - revealing the sad, shocking but often hilarious truths that lie underneath.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e`Caustically funny and sometimes very affecting ... with sardonic wit and a kind of tough tenderness, Lott portrays people growing up, growing apart or growing together' Sunday Times `Mordantly funny ... Observations are vivid, the dialogue crisp and, crucially, the characters are sympathetic' Tatler\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"The Week Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54038037889300,"sku":"gtv1789766880743","price":8.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1011\/7627\/9316\/files\/white-city-blue-by-tim-lott_1.jpg?v=1789766884","url":"https:\/\/straphemfit.shop\/products\/white-city-blue-by-tim-lott","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}