Static Cling

By: Gerald Hansen

How can a mother prove her love? Is Fionnuala Flood even capable of it?
Hardened matriarch Fionnuala Flood has been banished from the family home, and will stop at nothing to inveigle her way back to rule the roost with her rapier tongue. But a death at the dry cleaners where she works changes everything.

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How can a mother prove her love? Is Fionnuala Flood even capable of it?

Her husband Paddy, her mother Maureen and her brood of seven children have finally had enough of Fionnuala's acid tongue, casual corporal punishment and delinquent housekeeping. She's banished from the family home and must live, exile-like, in a dilapidated trailer on the outskirts of Derry, N. Ireland. Fionnaula's desperate to inveigle her way back and will stop at nothing to rule the roost once again.

She thinks her new job at the dry cleaners will be a breeze: short changing customers and adding to her wardrobe. But when an armed robbery during her shift leads to the death of beloved pensioner Mrs. Ming, Fionnuala's one-time babysitter, the police investigation unleashes dark secrets that threaten to make a heart grow in Fionnuala. These secrets will either bring her closer to her estranged family or tear them apart forever.

Always on the receiving end of her mother's scorn, newlywed Dymphna is struggling with three children under five and a marriage to Rory Riddell, a man from the swanky side of town. It's a community alien to poor, clueless town tart Dymphna. When her mother-in-law (and Fionnuala's boss) Zoe starts to doubt the provenance of Dymphna's children, she starts to investigate. And discovers more than she bargained for.

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