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Hand In The Till (The Derry Women Series Book 2) Kindle Edition

by Gerald Hansen (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.7 3.7 out of 5 stars 265 ratings
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"Continued brilliance. The characters will make you laugh and cry and fume while you're reading. Comic Irish writing at its best." Colin Quinn

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 Fionnuala woes, her two oldest sons are in prison, her husband's hands are fondling more than frozen fish at the packing plant, and her lesbian daughter has just published a book exposing the family's attempts to get their claws into Auntie Ursula Barnett's lottery winnings the year before. Daughter Dymphna, unwed mother, has just been kicked out of her boyfriend's house, adding two more mouths to feed. And worst of all, daughter Siofra's middle school is hosting a multi-denominational talent contest, Fingers Across the Foyle, which is supposed to build harmony, but will pit the Catholic students against their Protestant rivals. Siofra wants to nab the grand prize, a trip to Belfast to meet her idol Miley Cyrus in concert. Fionnuala is having none of it. Will the Semtex explode or will sanity prevail?
Throw in bottles of hallucinogenic absinthe, Ursula coming back to town for a showdown, and an old VCR that might change the world, and you have Hand In The Till, a darkly comic look at revenge, retribution and, perhaps, reconciliation.
NEW! Listen to the music in the book while you read! Check out the soundtrack to Hand In The Till on Spotify.
Although this novel is part of the DERRY WOMEN SERIES, it's a complete story and can be enjoyed without having read the previous books. For those who prefer a gentler reading experience, a PG version of this book is also available here on Amazon.
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Derry, Derry Women, Ireland, Northern Ireland

The Derry Women Series

Inspired by real events, the Derry Women Series starts with a bang in An Embarrassment of Riches, with a lottery win that pits one half of the family against the other. For those who like their humor dark.

Kenya, Athens, Moscow, Amsterdam, Dubai, Petra, Las Vegas, Ecuador

black humor, dark humor, family life, dysfunction, derry, Northern Ireland, Dublin

Fan favorite...? Best Served Frozen

Iceland, navy, Keflavik, US navy

From the streets of Derry...to around the world!

Join the legion of fans around the world who love the Derry Women series!

Start at the beginning...

An Embarrassment of Riches is the first in the series, where we meet Ursula and Jed Barnett and their in-laws, spearheaded by Fionnuala and Paddy Flood.

Fan favorite...? Best Served Frozen

The fourth in the series, and Dymphna Flood is getting married to boy from the wrong side of town Rory Riddell. Will they make it to the church?

The latest in the series!

We travel back to the Cold War, where Jed Barnett is stationed on the US Naval Base in Keflavik, Iceland. Ursula is horrified when she's put forward...to make stew for the entire base!

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Colin Quinn: "Comic Irish writing at its best."

About the Author

Best-selling author Gerald Hansen lived for years in his mother's hometown of Derry, Northern Ireland and attended Dublin City University. As a Navy brat, he grew up in California, Thailand, London, Iceland and Germany. His debut novel, An Embarrassment of Riches was an Amazon Breakthrough Novel semifinalist in 2010, Hand In The Till came out in 2011, Fleeing The Jurisdiction in 2012, and Best Served Frozen in 2014. Gerald now lives in New York City.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004IE9VKO
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mint Books (November 21, 2013)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 21, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 770 KB
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 364 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ B094CT4KVX
  • Customer Reviews:
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Best-selling author Gerald Hansen was a Navy brat, starting school in Thailand, graduating high school in Iceland, with Germany, California and his mother's hometown of Derry, Northern Ireland in between. He attended Dublin City University, and also lived in London and Berlin. The first of the ever-expanding Derry Women Series, An Embarrassment of Riches, was an ABNA semifinalist in 2011. He also has a crime series, the Derry Murder Mysteries, and a travelogue series, Around The World With Jet Lag Jerry. He loves music, spicy food, wearing Ben Sherman and traveling the world (still!). He now lives in New York City.

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3.7 out of 5 stars
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5.0 out of 5 stars A very funny and fun book!
Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2024
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The author has a great imagination plus first hand experience with the language and the way some of the destitute people live. Well worth reading. A surprise in every chapter!
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Carolyn Wilhelm
4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful writing, miserable topic, realistic fiction, black humor, sadness
Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2019
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The lives of miserable people well described with black humor and clever writing help explain how the troubles in Northern Ireland continue today in terms of prejudice and hate. The plot involves how part of an extended family won the lottery, and other relatives have no idea their money is not endless and cannot comprehend a lottery win has limits. The winners are persecuted. The children of the jealous relatives are criminals in training which was difficult for me to read. I read book one first and think I would have abandoned this book two if I had not understood the characters. Although I have not spent time in Derry/Londonderry, we took a black taxi tour in Belfast and I believe this story reflects how large the religious divide is still. In Belfast, gates between neighborhoods are still closed at night and neighborhoods are visibly political/religious.
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Kindle Customer Barbara Wall
5.0 out of 5 stars Laugh out loud black humor
Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2021
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More crazy shenanigans with the Flood family. Fionnuala has come up with a way to defraud her employer and line her pockets with her “cash cow” cans of cheap vegetables. This is almost too complicated a scheme for Fionnuala to have figured out as she only fires on a few of her brain cells on a good day. Of course the plan goes awry. This is another hilarious, but very black, twisted story of life in Derry. The women run the show, just not very well. Siofra is growing up to be just like her mother with so little redeeming value as to be almost nonexistent but I keep cheering for her. I love these characters. I hope that this series continues with many more books so I can see how Siofra grows up. I don’t expect anything good will happen but I expect to be thoroughly entertained.
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Marcia
3.0 out of 5 stars an odd book
Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2023
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I found this book disturbing. The characters were all mean and nasty. I saw no humor at all. Maybe this is how people behaved in Ireland at that time?
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MIMI ZWERLING
1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your time; it's BAD!
Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2017
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I generally choose my books by titles and HAND IN THE TILL beckoned to me. To say that I was disappointed is putting it mildly. I realize this book is the author's "baby," but I was deeply saddened and it turned my stomach.

The main gist of the book concerned the "troubles" in Ireland, when there was great turmoil, bullying and cruelty all in the name of religion - whose religion was better, or as one teenage bully put it, "Coke or Pepsi (Catholic or Protestant)?" Not that any loving or merciful God really cares. It is in one's heart and behavior that counts.

Having an employee scheme to defraud her boss so she could have a little extra money added nothing.

As I said, I read the first four chapters, but could not force myself to read more. Sorry, Gerald Hansen, I'm not a fan.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Paints a very false picture
Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2013
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I read this together with a close friend who grew up in Derry City, in the very neighbourhood where the Floods live in the story, and we both found it highly insulting to the people of Derry. The author claims to have lived in Derry but we doubt it. He paints its citizens as the most uncouth, selfish, rude and disgusting folks on earth--and it just isn't so. They are really a very nice, friendly bunch, and their language is much nicer than that of these characters. The slang words do exist, but are used far more infrequently by everyday people; he would have them using nothing but this vulgar language 24/7. And he makes glaring errors about the city itself: we know the neighbourhood he places the Floods in by the actual landmarks he cites, but he calls it the "Moorside" when the actual name is the Bogside, always was. He also claims the area is within the city's walls; it is not. I would hate for anyone to get the false notion that this story is in any way representative of Derry City and its people. By the way, my friend wrote on the author's webpage expressing these sentiments after reading the book, and although she was quite polite about it, the review was immediately quashed, never published. Apparently the author is too full of himself to accept any criticism.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Gotta Hand it to Him ...
Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2011
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I read An Embarrassment of Riches after having a very tough month at work. I took it on vacation and couldn't put it down ... laughing out loud and shaking my head - I could have sworn that Gerald Hansen had met my family! I thought that the first book would be tough to top.

I have to hand it to Mr. Hansen - he not only topped it -- He "over the topped" it. If I could give this book more than 5 stars, I would. Hand in the Till is even funnier than the first book. I had tears from laughing so hard. I had to read in a different room away from my family, because I was disrupting their evenings. (I did sneak out to share my favourite passages from the book.) I couldn't put it down ... anxious to discover the next unbelievable foray, but afraid of what else this outrageous family could possibly get themselves into, too ... in a sort of voyeuristic kind of way.

If you need a laugh -- get this book. If you need affirmation that your family isn't as bad as some people think -- get this book. If you want to be thoroughly entertained -- get this book.

I, too, am looking forward to what Mr. Hansen comes up with next. Can't wait!
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Ali J
4.0 out of 5 stars Different kind of read for me!
Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2013
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Funny in a lot of spots, sad in a lot of spots and really interesting! The dialect was very interesting and sometimes a challenge but I enjoyed the book!
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Kate
5.0 out of 5 stars Cheeky
Reviewed in Canada on December 15, 2012
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Brilliant, cheeky, down to earth Irish story. Gerald Hansen is a gifted story-teller, taking real life and turning it into pure entertainment. It's bold, and shoots straight from the gut. Not for the squeamish or sensitive mind. This is life as real as it gets.....with a bit of fiction added for fun. I love Gerald's writing. He has two more books in this series, but like he said, they can all stand alone when reading. I would recommend starting with An Embarassment of Riches, then this one, then the third, Fleeing the Jurisdiction. Enjoy!
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Lynda
5.0 out of 5 stars good read
Reviewed in France on January 15, 2014
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Enjoyed this book gave an insight into poverty and the lives of those in the book. Although some of the book I found a bit disjointed but still a good read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Explosive Writing!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 18, 2011
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Gerald Hansen hits the jackpot again with another outstanding piece of black comedy genius, delivered in his own unique style. The legendary Fionnuala Flood and her extended family once more emblazon every page with their misguided antics and comedy of errors. Right from the off, when we're privy to the fact that tins of knock-off vegetables are actually filled with Semtex, we know we're in for one explosive ride. Hansen not only has a rare talent for witty and razor-sharp characterization, he also writes for the ear - I feel I could almost pass for a native of Derry, if I wasn't so heart-feared, so am are! Above all, Hansen is a master of plot. No scene is wasted. Misunderstandings, crossed wires and bawdy frolics abound as Fionnuala takes stock of her lot at the age of forty-five and her futile attempts to raise money for the trip abroad to wreak revenge on her daughter, Moira, come to grief. Meanwhile, husband Paddy is up to no good with fellow Polish worker at the Fillet O Fish factory and Dymphna's lot is a sorry one - up the duff again and estranged from her Proddy husband Rory who her best friend has her eyes on. Youngest daughter Siofra, too - ever her mother's daughter - is carrying on the religious divisions in Derry single-handedly. Well, almost.
I won't give away any more of this story, but it will have you in stitches. Watch out especially for the jaw-droppingly funny chapter featuring a Rubick's cube.
Well done, Gerald. Can't wait for Book Three.
A must read.
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Rick Constantineau
1.0 out of 5 stars Not Very Humorous
Reviewed in Canada on April 6, 2021
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This was presented as a humorous book. It’s not.
The very first chapter is loaded with hate and prejudice, written without any hint of humour.
It was depressing and hurtful.
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Fiona Mac
3.0 out of 5 stars Not a great advert for Derry/L'derry
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 18, 2014
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Some truly dreadful characters and very difficult to like.... definitely not a novel the city's tourist department are liley to appreciate but some nuggets of humour redeemed it enough for me to buy the follow on.
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