Haunted by her troubles
In her first book The Long Road Home, Lynch, who runs a meditation walking and writing centre in Co Mayo, revisits her childhood, describing an idyllic life as one of 11 children, which came to an abrupt end the night she woke with a gun to her head and a British soldier ordering her out of bed.
Constant raids on the Lynch family home in rural Co Fermanagh meant she grew up living in fear, trusting no one and fleeing Ireland at 18 to get away from the persecution she and her family suffered.
