Playing With Fire

Diana Appleyard

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English

Black Swan
02 January 2006

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Playing With Fire - a game for adults in which there are no winners, only losers

Three couples, friends and neighbours... Tom, lazy and charming, looks after the children and thinks about writing a novel while his ambitious wife Sarah pursues her career as a journalist.

Nat is married to the unstylish Cassie, who spends her life in jodhpurs, but although an ill-matched couple they have a strong and enduring marriage. Laure, the beautiful half-French wife of Gerard, is being shut out of his life because of financial worries.

One winter's evening, Laure and Tom dance together at a local ball, and suddenly a world of possibilities opens up between them. Can they can forget the troubles of their own home lives and find a new excitement, a new solace? It's only a game, after all, not for real...

But playing with fire can hurt, as they both find out.

By: Diana Appleyard
Imprint: Black Swan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 242g
ISBN: 9780552773041
ISBN 10: 0552773042
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 02 January 2006
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Diana Appleyard is a writer, broadcaster and freelance journalist for a number of national newspapers and magazines. She worked for the BBC as an Education Correspondent, before deciding to give up her full-time job to work from home, a decision which formed the basis for her first novel, Homing Instinct. She lives with her husband Ross and their two young daughters in an Oxfordshire farmhouse. Her other novels Homing Instinct, A Class Apart, Out of Love and Every Good Woman Deserves a Lover, are also published by Black Swan.