She's serene and boring after the baby, having been nervy and interesting before. And the first wife is nothing but smiles and good humour with very little actual character, and the daughter was cut out of the TV version by the adapter on the grounds that he thought it too unlikely for words that someone could be crippled by a nasty car accident and yet remain a little ray of sunshine who loved dancing, and since she had no other role than to be said little ray, he preferred to have her die in the crash. This was the point when I started to think, hmm, he has a point, and the otherfemale characters aren't exactly three dimensional either.

On the plus side, Howarth is wonderful.