Rebuilding Coventry (Blackbirds 2002)

Coventry Dakin is a devoted, beautiful, but intensely bored wife and mother with a very dull husband and two teenage children. She kills her neighbor Gerald Fox, who is about to strangle his wife, with an Action Man doll. And now she is on the run.MoreCoventry Dakin is a devoted, beautiful, but intensely bored wife and mother with a very dull husband and two teenage children. She kills her neighbor Gerald Fox, who is about to strangle his wife, with an Action Man doll. And now she is on the run. Sue Townsend has written hilarious scenes in which Coventry roams the streets of London and in just one week becomes a bag lady, a prostitute, a servant and a guest at a society dinner party.