{"product_id":"9781471187889-white-city-blue","title":"White City Blue","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe newly-reissued stunning debut novel from the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Last Summer of the Water Strider\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 1999 Whitbread First Novel Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e ‘Beautiful and brilliant’ \u003cb\u003eTony Parsons\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Now 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 \u003cb\u003esad, shocking but often hilarious\u003c\/b\u003e truths that lie underneath.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e ‘Mordantly funny … Observations are vivid, the dialogue crisp and, crucially, the characters are sympathetic’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTatler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57535880135030,"sku":"9781471187889","price":6.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_31801571.jpg?v=1774283409","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781471187889-white-city-blue","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}