This 48-part (30 minute) daytime serial which was in fact live acting was written by Douglas Watkinson was made by ATV and shown on British television beginning in May 1980.

Maddie was played by Nyree Dawn Porter[1] and her husband Malcolm by Ian Hendry.

(Typical was the conservatory which consisted of a few cane chairs, plants, some dividers and Malcolm's painting of Maddie).

The story centres on the interplay between Maddie and her husband Malcolm, examining the illusive and sometimes surreal nature of their relationship.

The book covers the whole story from when Maddie first suspects that she is ill, through telling her family to her final death.