{"product_id":"mccoubrey-mark-b-mccaffery-9783949573040","title":"McCoubrey","description":"Drab, bleak Portadown, 1971, where Catholics are kept in their place, seen through the eyes of innocent, bright, mischievous and droll Barry-Joe McCoubrey, on the cusp of his teens reflecting on his own life, his family, his troubled neighbourhood—and girls.\nPopular with his schoolmates, Barry-Joe also has broody insular tendencies and spends a lot of time analysing both others and the growing conflict spreading from Belfast and Derry to his home town of Portadown, including the Garvaghy Road and the Tunnel areas.\nBarry-Joe shares a surname with Larry McCoubrey, a well-loved BBC newsreader, famous for his end-of-programme cheesy quips and jokes. Larry’s jokes lead to banter and slagging from Barry-Joe’s classmates. However, Larry also must report increasingly bad news and we see how Barry-Joe empathises with his namesake in this task.\nThis is a hilarious and immensely moving coming-of-age novel from Mark B. McCaffery.","brand":"Elsinor Verlag e.K.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042264711456,"sku":"9783949573040","price":13.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9783949573040.jpg?v=1781445792","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/mccoubrey-mark-b-mccaffery-9783949573040","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}