📱 eBook en inglés MR LYNCH'S HOLIDAY

Mr Lynchs Holiday is the charming and comic new novel by the bestselling and prize-winning author of What Was Lost and The News Where You Are, Catherine OFlynn.

Im 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: Ill make an excuse, Ill put him off. But it is too late. Dermot is already here, in southern Spain, and soon hell discover that Eamonn lives in an unfinished building site; that Lauras left him; and that itll be just the two of them, father and son, for two long, hot weeks.

Dermot doesnt entirely recognise his son; how can he stay quite so long in bed? And where is Laura? Eamonn doesnt seem to know quite what to make of his fathers arrival. On the other hand his neighbours - pushy and domineering Roger and Cheryl, smug but disillusioned property developers Becca and Ian - see in Dermot a respite from themselves.

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.

Mr Lynchs Holiday is a very funny and moving story about the clash of generations; about how families break apart and come together again; about how living "abroad" can feel less like a long holiday and more of a life sentence.

An awesomely talented writerJonathan Coe

A tenderness and warmth seep through . . . an astute and thoughtful writer, and her warm take on the world is pleasingSunday Times on The News Where You Are

Darkly funnyIndependent on Sunday on The News Where You Are

A comic genius . . . entertaining and often thoughtfulDaily Mail on The News Where You Are

Catherine OFlynn was born in 1970 and raised in Birmingham, the youngest of six children. Her parents ran a sweet shop. She worked briefly in journalism, then at a series of shopping centres. She has also been a web editor, a postwoman and a mystery shopper.