num_pages: 288
description: Estate agent Frankie Blue is known on his home turf - White City, Shepherd's Bush - as "Frank theFib." He's a liar - but one who always tries to tell the truth. He 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, coke, football. But Frankie is bored. He's decided to carry out the great "betrayal" - he's going to get married. 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.
language: English
title: White City Blue
titlecomplete: White City Blue
genres: Modern, Contemporary, Fiction
ratings_count: 384
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Whitbread Award
category: First Novel
publisher: Penguin