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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Real and edgy (or "Reasons to NOT Have an Affair"),
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This review is from: Playing Away (Paperback)
What happens when a good girl has an affair? Read this book and your questions will be answered. Playing Away is a wonderful novel about a fairy-tale marriage and what happens after. Highly recommended to British Literature fans or for those who want to read about the married side of Bridget Jones.Connie Green Baker has it all: a loving husband, fabulous friends, nice home, great life. So why the affair? It baffles Connie the most -- she loves her husband and is not unhappy in her marriage. But once she meets sexy, uninhibited John Harding at a work conference, something stirs inside her (literally!). Connie suddenly has a one-track mind on the John Harding Train and, try as she might, she can't (or doesn't want to) get off. As an adulteress, Connie again experiences the crazy passionate drama that was a part of her former life, the life she led before she got married. Which is not necessarily a good thing.... And then there are her friends: Sam, Daisy, Lucy and Rose -- each unique in personalities who offer advice and support for dear Connie, who has found herself in quite a predicament. Readers will laugh and smile in recognition, but will also shake their heads in dismay. The story follows Connie through the many stages of her comfortable and seemingly boring marriage and her disappointment of the lustful, bodice-ripping fairy-tale she imagined it to be. Playing Away is more than just a testimony to the awesome dynamics of a marriage -- it's a gritty portrayal of the toll it takes on a restless mind and the mistakes that can be made to fix it.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Sultry Affair,
By "liz_war" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Playing Away (Hardcover)
Connie has it all and what many wish for meaning perfect husband, successful career and great friends. However, she risks it all for sultry sex with a player at work who seems to want nothing but her body. Bad Connie but a thrilling read! Buy this book if you are happily yet somewhat restlessly married and are asking the question now what. Experience Connie's affair instead of having one. Save yourself from the agony of cheating as you see how tormented Connie becomes when her so called happy life turns into a self created mess. Can she pull it back together.. I'm not telling..
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An intelligent and honest look at marriage and infidelity,
This review is from: Playing Away (Hardcover)
Is there such a thing as Happily Ever After? That's what Connie Green -- the spunky heroine in Playing Away -- wonders. More importantly, why would a confident and successful career woman with a seemingly perfect husband want to have a sleazy affair with a I-can-get-any-woman-I-want-whenever-I-want man? These are the things that the precocious heroine is battling with. Connie cannot resist John Harding's enigmatic and tenacious nature. Before she knows it, she has begun a steamy and dangerous affair that could make or destroy her life. Connie is confused. She doesn't know what she wants. So she seeks advise from her friends, all of which are too preoccupied with their own love lives -- or lack thereof. Will Connie come to her senses, or will she throw caution to the wind and jeopardize her marriage? This novel made laugh and cry. There were some scenes in which Connie and John engaged into some pretty racy sex. But there were funny and touching moments as well. I loved Connie's friends -- their get-togethers and witty conversations felt as though I was watching an episode of Sex and the City. However, I frowned at the fact that Connie seemed a little too desperate about John and degraded herself most of the time. It was painful. But the sharp writing and witty characters are the force in this magnificent novel. Playful, sexy, perverse and with a particular brand of sly naivete all its own, Playing Away is a reading investment. I highly recommend it.
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