Wife Begins At Forty

Written by: Arne Sultan, Earl Barret and Ray Cooney

Directed by: Glenys Young

April 1998

It seems that, for some people, forty is a rather traumatic age. For Linda Harper, it certainly appears to be, as she starts worrying three years before her fortieth birthday. Dissatisfied spiritually and physically with her seventeen-year marriage to the slightly staid George, Linda decides to leave. In fact, it is George who moves out, giving Linda a change to "find herself" through a variety of courses including aerobics and sculpting. When George returns to the family home a few weeks later to sort out maintenance arrangements with the help of neighbours Roger and Betty, however, he and Linda discover that the flames of passion are not quite dead, albeit in need of a little fanning!