A savagely satirical tale of marital revenge. Madeleine wants revenge; Madeleine wants to be remembered: Madeleine wants love. Who doesnt? Madeleine is ex-wife & chief persecutor of Jarvis the architect. Why not? She hates him. Hilary is their daughter growing fatter & lumpier every day under Madeleines triumphant care & witness to the wrongs her mother suffered. For Jarvis has a clean new life with a clean new wife Lily & a nice new baby Jonathan. The furniture is polished & there is orange juice for breakfast. Jarvis is content or thinks he is fending off Madeleines forays as best he can. Jarvis has a part-time secretary too
- Margot now the doctors wife unremembered from the days of her youth. Margot unacknowledged wife & mother accepting tending nurturing his children & her own complaisant in her lot. Then Madeleine hurling out her dark reproaches from the other side of violent death uncovers new familial links in the disruption she creates.