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|title=Mr Lynch's Holiday

|author=Catherine O'Flynn

|publisher=Viking

|date=August 2013

|website=http://www.catherineoflynn.com/

|summary=Funny and moving, this is a story about living abroad, about what makes a home, and about families and the endless complications of relationships between parents and children.

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Having read and enjoyed both of her previous novels, [[What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn|What Was Lost]] and [[The News Where You Are by Catherine O'Flynn|The News Where You Are]] I was looking forward to this latest book. The story tells us of a father who surprises his son, living in Spain, with a visit. The father is recently widowed and the son's long-term partner has very recently left him, although it's some time before he admits that to his dad. What begins as a holiday turns into something of a pschological rescue mission as Dermot begins to see the problems depressing Eamonn and the ways in which he might be able to help. There's a lot about familial relationships in the book, as well as ideas about living at home and abroad.