O'Flynn, C: Mr Lynch's Holiday

It's a simple story but, thanks to a balance between hunour and pathos, a delightful one. The dialogue is perfectly pitched...but what is most meaningful about this is that it is a rare love story between a father and a son Sunday Telegraph 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 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 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