When recently retired English bus driver Dermot Lynch pays a holiday visit to his son Eamonn in the crumbling real-estate development of Lomaverde, Spain, the last thing he expects is that he will stay. But the recently widowed Dermot really has nowhere else to go, and Eamonn – dumped by his girlfriend and trapped by the Spanish economic crisis – needs a friend. That's the basis of Catherine O'Flynn's lovely new novel Mr. Lynch's Holiday, a father-and-son story that somehow manages to be as funny and warm as it is sly and unsentimental. You can read the Monitor's full review of "Mr. Lynch's Holiday" here.
