28/03 a not so imaginary blurb

Probably fired up after submitting my entry for BBF, I played around with a blurb for what is currently 'Bridie 5' Very tongue in cheek, I put it on Six sentences, and now reproduce it here:

Five Irish brothers, four wives, ten children

Wife #1 correctly interprets the reason for her husband’s uncharacteristic seething bad temper

Wife #2 comes to the rescue when an outsider threatens the business, but inadvertently nearly ruins the marriage of wife #4

Wife #3 has three of the brothers in love with her - not always secretly - and has to fend off the revived attention of a long-ago lover.

Wife #4 struggles to overcome her loss of self-confidence, increasingly threatened as she gradually becomes aware of her cousin's effect on her husband - and her brother-in-law's effect on her.

Family relationships are inevitably complicated by being intertwined with the family business and when past relationships, good and bad, mistaken and deliberate, resurface and add further complications, the need to limit damage - and family size - becomes urgent.