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Mr Lynch's Holiday (Paperback)
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Mr Lynch's Holiday (Paperback)
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List price R490
Loot Price R397
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You Save R93 (19%)
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Mr Lynch's Holiday is the new comic novel by Catherine O'Flynn, 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 his father's imminent arrival. His first thought:
I'll make an excuse, I'll put him off. But it's too late. Laura has
left, and Dermot is already here, a fresh arrival from Ireland to
southern Spain. Now it's just the two of them, father and son, for
two long, hot weeks. Neither knows quite what to make of the other.
But as they are swept up in the British expats' ceaseless
barbecuing and bickering, they begin to discover the truth about
why each left home and about the family past. At the same time they
uncover a shocking, unacknowledged secret at the heart of this
defiant but beleaguered community. Mr Lynch's Holiday is the moving
story of a father and son pushed together in sunny Spain. With
warmth and wit it is about the clash of generations; about how
families fracture and heal themselves; and about how living
"abroad" can be less like a holiday and more like a life sentence.
'An awesomely talented writer' Jonathan Coe 'Delightful ... a rare
love story between a father and a son' Sunday Telegraph 'Subtle,
clever and thoroughly enjoyable' Sunday Mirror '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 'A flow of laugh-aloud satire ... sharp enough to
rank her with Mark Haddon and Marina Lewckya' Independent on Sunday
on The News Where You Are Catherine O'Flynn was born in 1970 and
raised in Birmingham, the youngest of six children. Her debut
novel, What Was Lost, won the Costa First Novel Award, was
shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and was longlisted
for the Booker and Orange Prizes. Her second novel, The News Where
You Are, was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
and an Edgar Allen Poe Award.
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