Gumshoe Granny

Suzanne Hammond

 

 

"Sunny"

Synopsis of the proposed three part Mini Series

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                 An Inspirational Story of Courage and Survival
 
Abandoned at 13, pregnant at 16, Sunny is caught up in a web of mystery involving illegal adoption, a shady solicitor, a music student, a homosexual teacher, two antique bracelets and Sheree, Sunny’s room mate at the church home. After surviving years in the outback, Sunny challenges the forces to piece together the mysterious links of corruption, lies and scandal in a baby selling racket. Both Sunny & Sheree join forces to become a very successful specialist Private Investigation team in Australia
 
SUNNY                                                 

 Survival of the Human Spirit.

Her first true love reappears in Sunny’s life, only to experience the forces that again conspire to interfere. Bestowed with a lifetime of adventure Sunny is led into eventually becoming a successful specialist private investigator, unraveling many mysteries involving young mothers in the sixties.
 
The Journey Begins.

The Nomadic Fenwar Family consist of Dora, a classical pianist, Andrew, a publican, and their four children Sunny, Jane, Jonathon and Paul. At 16 Sunny is tragically separated from Keiran, her first love, and sent in disgrace to a church home to have her baby. Humming Happy Birthday to herself in the labour ward Sunny is subjected to the most horrendous conditions during the birth of her baby. After being denied the opportunity to see or nurse her baby, this fragile and broken-spirited young girl sits curled up in the corner of a carriage of an old steam train headed out west. As the train chugs through the drought-ridden countryside, she reflects on her last conversation with Sheree, her room mate at the church home. They pledge to one day find their stolen babies and uncover the mystery of the antique bracelet and to locate her long lost father.
 
Sunny’s Life in the Outback.

Sunny returns to the bush town to work on the local telephone exchange. At eighteen she marries David, a local bush worker who proposes to her whilst shearing a bloodied sheep. He pledges to teach her to build outdoor dunnies, fence cattle yards and crutch lambs. Nana the Nazi and Pop the Undertaker attend Sunny and David’s wedding but find the flies, aborigines, thirty five degree heat and the outdoor dunny too much to bear. Sunny adapts to living life in a five-bay horse stables, carts furniture from the town dump on a railway trolley, helps her husband build a home, mends fences, lights a “donkey” for hot water, reads to her three children at night by the kerosene lamp and cooks meals on a metho stove. Twenty years later, Sunny divorces David when his personal demons return to destroy the family unit.
  
The Mystery Deepens.

Sunny establishes a Music Academy where she meets John who wears an unusual piece of jewelry, similar to Sheree. At a Christmas concert John presents a red-haired pupil with an award for the best pianist in her age group. Who is she? A reunion with Sunny’s long-lost baby, the death of her mother and John open the flood gates for Sunny that sets her on a path of self-destruction, leading her to eventual clarity. Years later, a reunion with her first love is once again snatched from her arms.
 A grandmother, mother and son sit on the floor unwrapping presents amidst laughter and tears. Their mysterious journey has also come to an end. Who are they?
 
Celebrating the 60’s in the 90’s.

A celebration night of rock and roll for Andrew, Tony, six of Sunny’s room mates from the church home and Sunny ends this story of survival of the human spirit. Two special guests dance together.
 
 
                                                                         Suzanne Hammond
Who is Suzanne Hammond?
 
Brisbane Author, Speaker, Business Woman, Lifestyle Coach, Adoption Mediator and former Private Investigator, Suzanne Hammond is an inspiring woman with a vision.
After enduring decades of personal hardship, Suzanne used her personal experiences to touch other people’s lives and to achieve success as a specialist private investigator. Author of eight published books, she has several more writing projects in the pipeline, is the founder of two successful businesses, and has been nominated for several business awards.

Suzanne is seeking producers and investors willing to bring this amazing story to life through the medium of television or film. Please contact Suzanne on 0418 873 101  for a confidential discussion.
 

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