Mr Lynch's Holiday
  • Published: 6 February 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141938615
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272

Mr Lynch's Holiday

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A new British comic novel about the clash of generations, by the bestselling and prize-winning author of What Was Lost and The News Where You Are

'I'm looking forward to seeing you and Laura and getting my first taste of \"abroad\".'

Eamonn Lynch stares at the letter announcing the imminent arrival of his father, Dermot. His first thought is: I'll make an excuse, I'll put him off. But it is too late. Dermot is already here, in southern Spain, and soon he'll discover that Eamonn lives in an unfinished building site; that Laura's left him; and that it'll be just the two of them, father and son, for two long, hot weeks.

Dermot doesn't entirely recognise his son; Eamonn doesn't seem to know quite what to make of his father's arrival. Swept up in the British expats' ceaseless barbecuing and bickering, both father and son slowly discover the truth about each other and the family past. But at the same time they uncover a shocking, unacknowledged secret at the heart of this defiant but beleaguered community.
  • Published: 6 February 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141938615
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272
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Praise for Mr Lynch's Holiday

Delightful ... a rare love story between a father and a son

Sunday Telegraph

An awesomely talented writer

Jonathan Coe

Ms O'Flynn is a remarkable and original writer...tenderness, warmth, thoughtfulness and comic genius are words that are flung around a lot, but it's more than that. She flinches at nothing and is as sharp as dammit

Fay Weldon, Observer

O'Flynn writes with brilliant wit and warmth about people cast adrift in contemporary wildernesses, and the resolution between father and son is surprising and satisfying

The Times

Like Jonathan Coe, O'Flynn has a gift for catching recent social history in her fiction, and this is a cuttingly down-to-earth book about families, expats and the experience of being Irish in Britain in the 1970s

Sunday Times

The charm of this story of the skill and pathos with which the touching father and son relationship is portrayed. Subtle, clever and thoroughly enjoyable

Sunday Mirror