Mrs Forsythe

Marjorie Forsythe, reluctant wife and mother, has yearned for the time she can be on her own, and finally the day has come. It is 1970s Wellington, and the city beckons her to explore a different life, where her options and choices are based on her talents and intellect rather than on societal norms. But will Marjorie’s brittleness with family and friends soften when she finally has, as Virginia Woolf says, ‘a room of one’s own’, and opportunities arise to be more than mere housewife or mother? Will she ever be able to give and receive the love she needs and others wish for?