Ann Devine, Ready for Her Close-Up - Softcover

O'Regan, Colm

3.4

188 ratings by Goodreads

9781848272460: Ann Devine, Ready for Her Close-Up

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848272464 ISBN 13: 9781848272460

Publisher: Transworld Ireland, 2019

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'Warm, charming and laugh-out-loud funny... Ann Devine, Ready For Her Close-Up is a little ray of sunshine, sure to delight' Irish Independent
Meet Ann Devine, a riddle, wrapped up in a fleece, inside a Skoda Octavia.

Now that her youngest has flown the nest, Ann finds herself at a loose end. Until, that is, she is put forward for the Kilsudgeon Tidy Towns Committee.

Yet all is not neat and tidy in Kilsudgeon. There are strange sightings of people who aren't local driving 4x4s with a yellow reg, a man bun requesting kefir in the restaurant and a quad bike at a funeral.

What does this have to do with rumours of a brand new television series to rival Game of Thrones? And what will it all mean for Kilsudgeon's newly proposed town park?

A lot, as it happens.

As the town begins to fill up with the film crew, extras and a Hollywood star who is fond of the drink, everyone welcomes the chance to make a few bob and to finally get enough broadband to send an attachment.

Or nearly everyone. Harmony is threatened when the newcomers seem to be doing more damage than good and the last straw is when Ann’s pride and joy - a floral arrangement in a boat - is trashed. She’s about to discover what it means to go viral...
'Warm-spirited, funny, dark when it needs to be, and – most importantly – underwritten by a scalpel-sharp ear for how Irish people really speak...O’Regan never gets it wrong' Sunday Business Post

'Ann Devine brings a smile to the face of rural Ireland...O’Regan satirises small-town Ireland with both affection and deadpan wit' Sunday Times

'Everybody knows an Ann Devine ... It's hard to write a book that's funny the whole way through, consistently funny with belly laughs ... but Colm has done that' �ine Toner, Ireland AM

'Laugh-out-loud' Irish Daily Mail

'O’Regan taps into the wild, weird and woolly' RT� Guide

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