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Playing Away - a story about a happily married, seemingly well balanced woman who embarks on an affair which turns her into a crazy woman. Great read, seriously sexy (maybe dont read on a packed... more

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  • 10 of 10 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    silvachilla

    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Good read, sexy and honest

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Needless sequel comes after it

    Playing Away - a story about a happily married, seemingly well balanced woman who embarks on an affair which turns her into a crazy woman. Great read, seriously sexy (maybe dont read on a packed tube train!). CONNIE: late twenties, married to the lovely Luke for about a year. Lives in a nice house, has a good job, and a close circle of friends. Gets involved with the sexy but dangerous John and becomes besotted and caught up in a dangerous love affair. Connie is completely unlikeable to begin with. She doesnt seem to appreciate what she has, and it's almost like she's looking for trouble ... more
  • 13 of 14 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    alleykatz

    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages all the write ingredients...

    Disadvantages Disadvantages none

    The front cover reads "the closest you'll get to an affair withoug actually having one" Oh so true, this story, is one you won't want to put down. Basic Plot Connie, is a 20 something, happily married (for a year) to Luke, the perfect good looking husband. She has a great job, circle of good friends, what more can she want? Follow Connie as she meets one of the sexiest men she has ever met, first time around she shuns him, but he makes her excited. She embarks on a torrid affair, Jon Harding, is everything her husband isn't, he takes her to cheap bars, they get drunk, have wild sex, he is ... more
  • 22 of 22 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    kerryking

    2 Stars Staying Away 06/05/2003
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages It's chick lit, so you don't need to have won the nobel science prize to understand it

    Disadvantages Disadvantages The main character is selfish and needs a good slap.

    Playing Away was one of the first of a long series of Chick Lit genre books that I read (and am still reading)and I was so disappointed in it that I have shunned everything else that Adele has written since. Her central character is a girl called Connie and Connie has been married to the pityable Luke for a year; the reader is led to believe that everything in the garden is rosy until the John Harding, the Corporate Lothario arrives on the scene and a bored and shallow Connie dives head first into the murky puddle of an affair. What Adele's first outing has in common with most author's first ... more
  • 14 of 14 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    jlw28

    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages amazing written, gripping, entertaining

    Disadvantages Disadvantages you won't be able to put it down

    i have just finished reading this book and will no doubt be compelled to read it again. Although i wasnt really expecting it to be a particularly intellectually written i was so wrong. It's funny, witty but does actually make you think about your own life and your own relationships. Basically, as stated on the cover, the book mainly circles around connie and luck who seem to be the perfect couple. Both are funny,clever, good looking and have loads of similar friends. They also earn a massive salary and live in amazing london house. Everything is blissful and contented in this marriage until ... more
  • 3 of 10 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    amysmum247

    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages A modern book that is true to life

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Strong crude language

    Once again Adele Parks has written a brilliant book that you will not want to put it down. Basically Connie is happily married for one year when she meets John Harding. Following a work trip away & lots of flirting they fall head over heels in lust & can not keep their hands off each other. Once home they can not stop thinking about each other & dirty text messages & phone calls lead to passionate fast sex wherever & whenever they get the chance. When Connie realises her mistake is it too late, will her husband find out & if so does she care? Strong language & lots of sex...as the cover says ... more

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Author Adele Parks
Title Playing Away
Genre Romance
Type Fiction
ISBN 0140290656; 0140292225; 0141016442; 067177543X; 0671775464

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