How does bouquet of barbed wire end

Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. Sort order. Start your review of A Bouquet of Barbed Wire. Emotionally spoilt, self-indulgent Prue, falls pregnant at the age of 19 to the dark and dashing Gavin. Her father, respectable Peter Manson, cannot abide the idea of them being close; it's as if another man has taken his rightful place.

As he faces his own mid-life crisis, Peter tries to come to terms with the loss of possession over his daughter by beginning an affair with his young secretary. Gavin and Prue attempt to work through their own marriage anomalies as Prue perfects her role as the Emotionally spoilt, self-indulgent Prue, falls pregnant at the age of 19 to the dark and dashing Gavin. Gavin and Prue attempt to work through their own marriage anomalies as Prue perfects her role as the introspective, attention-seeking victim; eventually goading Gavin into punishing her.

When she spills the beans about her father's affair to her gentile, subservient mother, Cassie, Gavin sees red. But his out of control heavy-handedness with Prue has an unexpected effect on Cassie, and her own emotional skeleton falls from the closet with the slightest push, sending the sexual dynamic between them all spinning on its axis yet again.

Dark, raw, honest, and still maintaining a scandalous edge, especially when one considers this was written in and aired on TV in the seventies. I remember watching the series with my mother and we were both transfixed by this melting-pot of emotions played out by the middle-class Manson family. How complex we humans are, how fragile our feelings and failures. What to show, what to keep buried. And all the more powerful, and recognisable for that.

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This time I did and it was mostly worth the effort. I struggled to accept the attitude to Gavin beating Prue senseless while she was pregnant - her mother not only exonerates him, they embark upon an affair while Prue lies in hospital.

Prue may be a monster but I felt for a teenager who has been implicitly lusted after by her own father; what could be worse? I did love the final page. United Kingdom. Un ramo de alambre de espino. Mammoth Screen. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 45 minutes. Related news. Sep 7 Digital Spy. Sep 3 Digital Spy. Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content. Edit page. Newman's book, first published in , caused controversy when it was originally adapted for television by LWT for ITV in with its story of infidelity, lust and incest.

A sequel, Another Bouquet, was made a year later. Clive James, in his Observer review of the first series, commented that "by the end everybody had been to bed with everybody else except the baby". Obviously, I prefer my version, but I'm still fascinated by what they have managed to do. To date, Andrea has written 12 novels and 50 TV scripts, but she was making up stories 'almost as soon as I could hold a pen'. And human relationships - in all their tawdry glory - were an early obsession.

She remembers getting into trouble, aged about seven, because she wrote a short story that involved people kissing. She didn't even have to leave her own house to gain an understanding of how love can bring pain.

Her grandparents had divorced because of her grandfather's affair, and her grandmother moved in with her family. My grandfather lived in Jamaica with this other woman, while my grandmother was with us. It was never talked about overtly, but it was always in the background. Her own romantic life seemed, at first, to follow a very traditional pattern.

At 21, she married her childhood sweetheart, but it wasn't a success - partly because Andrea's writing had started to make her serious money. She realised, with some horror, that writing meant more to her than her marriage. It didn't help things with my husband, who was quite unsettled by my success. Money was the big issue - he couldn't handle the fact that I earned more than him.

She never married again, although she says, eyes twinkling, she had 'quite a lot' of relationships. Since her literary obsession seems to be infidelity, I ask if she has personal experience. I prefer my version, but I'm still fascinated by what they have managed to do'.

She's keen not to be too specific about her love life - she won't confirm if she is seeing anyone at the moment, for instance - but there has clearly been heartache there.

I have been dumped. I have done the dumping. I guess it evens out. So she understands the irrational thoughts that can come to the surface when things break down. I was once asked if it happened.