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Playing Away ‘A smart cross between Friends and Sex in the City’ - USA Today It's sexy. It's roguish. It's hilarious. It's a sensational debut novel from London, A joyous comic take on modern marriage and its fallout. Single people may feel that they have it rough... But wait until you see what happens when married folk fall in lust. Connie Green's life should be perfect. She has a hot career, her wonderful husband Luke and a bunch of great girlfriends. But Connie has a big problem. She has just met overwhelmingly sexy John at a business conference. Her head and her heart said, "no way," but her traitorous body shrieked, "yes, YES!" Now Connie's deep into a tawdry affair which is destroying her peace of mind and her grand plan for living Happily Ever After. Maybe John is her destiny. After all, she is losing weight. It can't be a bad thing if she is losing weight. Can it? Connie longs to confide in her girlfriends. They've always discussed their sex lives before, preferably over cocktails. But this infidelity thing makes it a trifle awkward. Rose would be horrified. For her, its pretty clear cut; nice girls don't have affairs. And Daisy is too busy being in love. Sam knows about John but she doesn't want to believe it. How could and why would Connie cheat on her lovely husband? Sam is working hard to ignore the fact that Connie's shagging John every chance she gets. Maybe Lucy would understand; she's bonking a married man herself. Connie just wishes Lucy would be a little less cynical about the whole thing. What Connie wants is...Well, Connie's not quite sure what she wants. And that's the trouble. ‘...light hearted, deadly serious and uniquely comical’ - The New York Times Published by Simon & Schuster |
