White City Blue

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Winner of the 1999 Whitbread First Novel Award

Beautiful and brilliant Tony Parsons

Estate agent Frankie Blue is known on his home turf White City, Shepherds Bush as Frank the Fib. Hes 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.

Now they are thirty and trying to live the same life as they did then drinking, girls, banter, football. Then comes Frankies 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.

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

Author Bio

Tim Lott is the author of seven novels and a memoir, The Scent of Dried Roses, which won the PEN/J.R. Ackerley Prize. White City Blue won the Whitbread First Novel Award and his young adult book Fearless was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Book Award. Tim lives with his family in north-west London. Visit his website www.timlott.co.uk