Theatrical marriages – glamorous… scandalous… bitchy… brief? or are they in fact just like anyone else’s? This novel takes the lid off one such marriage: inside we find Emma, married to an egocentric actor playing a year’s season at a provincial theatre festival, David, her husband – and Wyndham, the producer. The mixture turns rapidly to acid.

          Once a model and now a mother of two, Emma has little life of her own. When her husband David is invited to star in two plays in Hereford, and Emma is obliged to leave her beloved London behind, the resentment begins to surface.