Derry Women

When Ursula Barnett and her husband Jed win the Irish lottery, they think their troubles are over. But they are just beginning.

Ursula coerces her Yank husband to retire in her hometown of Derry, Northern Ireland, hoping to atone for her youthful sins as a collaborator with the IRA in the 1970s. At the first sniff of Ursula s lotto win, however,...

Desperate mother of seven, Fionnuala Flood, thinks her new get-rich-quick scheme will pay all the bills, but instead it threatens to tear the family apart.

The case of bargain bin canned vegetables she bought for the scam contains not spuds but explosives. A wilting branch of the defunct IRA will stop at nothing to get them back. Adding to the...

It's danger on the high seas for the Barnetts, but will it come from the authorities, Mother Nature or family Flood?

In Wisconsin six years ago, Ursula Barnett accidentally committed a shocking crime. The statute of limitations is inching closer, and the police are circling in. Panicked, Ursula books herself and her American family passage on a...

Revenge may be a dish best served cold, but hardened mother of seven Fionnuala Flood plans on serving hers up frozen. Or so she thinks.

The bells are ringing out in Derry, Northern Ireland, as the dirt-poor Floods and the rich and entitled Riddells prepare for the pairing in matrimony of their families and a bridging of the gap between the two...

When an armed robbery at Final Spinz, the dry cleaners where hardened matriarch Fionnuala Flood works, leads to the death of beloved pensioner Mrs. Ming, the ensuing investigation unleashes dark secrets that promise to bring Fionnuala closer to her husband Paddy, her mother Maureen, and the four children of her brood still in town. Or tear them...

Destination: nowhere. Just what are the career alternatives for a disenchanted flight attendant? And after a decade of wrong choices, can she finally grow up?

Gretchen Barnett, slogging daily through the unfriendly skies on Nickel and Dime, America's most loathed budget airline, tries to upgrade her life as her twenties draw to an end. In...

While desperately cramming to appear on the TV quiz show Useless, Fionnuala Flood discovers many things about the world she had never cared to know. The most alarming to her is what scientists are up to in an underground tunnel in Switzerland: smashing atoms together at close to the speed of light. She’s heard that toying with these things will...

Even Ursula is shocked when she discovers the secret of her Irish stew. But just what is that secret...?

At the height of the Cold War, St. Patrick’s Day is swiftly approaching the US Naval air base perched on the lava fields of Iceland. Derry woman Ursula has never given her stew recipe much thought, but when she and her best mate Reenie are...

What Fionnuala wants at the Top Yer Trolly they certainly don’t stock.

The Floods are shopping down the town, and Fionnuala is gasping! She wants a cup of tea, milky with three sugars, at the Kebabalicious. The fast food chain has attempted to go upmaket with a swanky new self-serve tea and coffee corner, and Fionnuala is excited to check it out. And she’s also desperate to rest her aching feet. But will she be...

PLEASE NOTE: Although this novelette is part of the DERRY WOMEN SERIES, it’s a complete story, and can be enjoyed without having read the previous books.

Maybe they should’ve said grace beforehand...?

The extended Flood family are in for a surprise. Hardened matriarch Fionnuala Flood, tiring of the usual fish fingers and baked beans on toast, has...

CHristmas will be funThis Christmas, Fionnuala Flood has made one big mistake and she’s paying for it big time. The cops or the criminals. All she wanted to do was hug her sons returning home for the holidays, kick her feet up and watch Titanic while nibbling Zoe’s posh amuse bouches, whatever they were. But, after a few too glasses of Christmas...

Is that the jingle of sleigh bells Fionnuala hears, or the jangle of handcuffs?

Derry girls, women, wee boys, hard men, they’re all here in the these four stand alone short works from the Derry Women Series. Previously released as a short story (Table For Nine At Kebablicious), a novelette (The Way to A Man’s Heart or Strange Things on Plates) and a novella (A Very Fionnuala Christmas) and A Backstitch in Spacetime, they...