Lyrics for the Loved Ones

<p>After half a century confined in a psychiatric hospital Matty has moved to a care home on the Cumbrian coast. Next year she'll be a hundred and she intends to celebrate in style. Yet before she can make the arrangements her 'maid' goes missing.</p><p><br></p><p>Irene a care assistant aims to surprise Matty with a birthday visit from the child she gave up for adoption as a young woman. But when lockdown shuts the care-home doors all plans are put on hold. </p><p><br></p><p>But Matty won't be beaten. At least not until the Black Lives Matter protests burst her bubble and buried secrets come to light.</p><p><br></p><p>Will she survive to a hundred? Will she see her 'maid' again? Will she meet her long-lost child? </p><p><br></p><p>Rooted in injustice balanced with humour this is a bittersweet story of reckoning with hidden histories in cloistered times.</p>