John Lynch is a successful film and stage actor. He is perhaps most famous for his heartbreaking performance as the eponymous hero in the film of Bernard MacLaverty's novel ‘Cal’. He also starred in Jim Sheridan's ‘In the Name of the Father’ with Daniel Day Lewis, and in ‘Sliding Doors’ opposite Gywneth Paltrow. His new film ‘The Bridges of San Luis Rey’ opens in Spring 2005 and also stars Robert de Niro and Harvey Keitel. ‘Torn Water’ is his first novel.

'Lynch brings alive the grimy realities of a land and family in the grip of the Troubles, while also conjuring the lilting dreamscapes of a young boy's mind.' Observer 'A tale of great delicacy and originality, in which the fierce intensity of adolescence and, even more, the paranoia and yearning of childhood are evoked with precision, grace and overwhelming conviction.' Independent on Sunday '"Torn Water" has the tight tone and feel of the period it depicts and captures well the uncertainties of someone leaving the capsule of childhood behind and taking their first footsteps out into the vast unknown where there are no certainties and no ghosts or angels to guide you.' Irish Sunday Independent 'As a moral lesson for modern Ireland it is conventional but appealing.' Irish Times 'You get the beat of a writer's heart all the way through the book.' Jennifer Johnston 'Singularly inventive!Lynch clearly has both the wit and seriousness to plumb the mind of the young Irish male. He is now a man to as closely watch on paper as on screen.' Irish Times 'Near perfect miniature' Guardian

John Lynch is a successful film and stage actor. He is perhaps most famous for his heartbreaking performance as the eponymous hero in the film of Bernard MacLaverty's novel ‘Cal’. He also starred in Jim Sheridan's ‘In the Name of the Father’ with Daniel Day Lewis, and in ‘Sliding Doors’ opposite Gywneth Paltrow. His new film ‘The Bridges of San Luis Rey’ opens in Spring 2005 and also stars Robert de Niro and Harvey Keitel. ‘Torn Water’ is his first novel.

'Lynch brings alive the grimy realities of a land and family in the grip of the Troubles, while also conjuring the lilting dreamscapes of a young boy's mind.' Observer 'A tale of great delicacy and originality, in which the fierce intensity of adolescence and, even more, the paranoia and yearning of childhood are evoked with precision, grace and overwhelming conviction.' Independent on Sunday '"Torn Water" has the tight tone and feel of the period it depicts and captures well the uncertainties of someone leaving the capsule of childhood behind and taking their first footsteps out into the vast unknown where there are no certainties and no ghosts or angels to guide you.' Irish Sunday Independent 'As a moral lesson for modern Ireland it is conventional but appealing.' Irish Times 'You get the beat of a writer's heart all the way through the book.' Jennifer Johnston 'Singularly inventive!Lynch clearly has both the wit and seriousness to plumb the mind of the young Irish male. He is now a man to as closely watch on paper as on screen.' Irish Times 'Near perfect miniature' Guardian

John Lynch is a successful film and stage actor. He is perhaps most famous for his heartbreaking performance as the eponymous hero in the film of Bernard MacLaverty's novel ‘Cal’. He also starred in Jim Sheridan's ‘In the Name of the Father’ with Daniel Day Lewis, and in ‘Sliding Doors’ opposite Gywneth Paltrow. His new film ‘The Bridges of San Luis Rey’ opens in Spring 2005 and also stars Robert de Niro and Harvey Keitel. ‘Torn Water’ is his first novel.

'Lynch brings alive the grimy realities of a land and family in the grip of the Troubles, while also conjuring the lilting dreamscapes of a young boy's mind.' Observer 'A tale of great delicacy and originality, in which the fierce intensity of adolescence and, even more, the paranoia and yearning of childhood are evoked with precision, grace and overwhelming conviction.' Independent on Sunday '"Torn Water" has the tight tone and feel of the period it depicts and captures well the uncertainties of someone leaving the capsule of childhood behind and taking their first footsteps out into the vast unknown where there are no certainties and no ghosts or angels to guide you.' Irish Sunday Independent 'As a moral lesson for modern Ireland it is conventional but appealing.' Irish Times 'You get the beat of a writer's heart all the way through the book.' Jennifer Johnston 'Singularly inventive!Lynch clearly has both the wit and seriousness to plumb the mind of the young Irish male. He is now a man to as closely watch on paper as on screen.' Irish Times 'Near perfect miniature' Guardian