Playing With Fire

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Three couples, whose lives are intertwined. They live in the same village, their children are friends and they all appear to have comfortable, even enviable lives. Tom, lazy and charming, looks after the children and thinks about writing a novel while his driven wife Sarah pursues her successful career as a journalist. He seems the least likely candidate as a lover. Nat, a successful and glamorous businessman, is married to the unstylish Cassle, who spends her life in jodhpurs and Wellingtons, but although an apparently ill-matched couple they have a strong and enduring marriage. Cassle's best friend is Laure, the beautiful half-French wife of Gerard who is shutting her out of his life because of financial worries. The unhappiness of this one couple, like a sharp rock being dropped into a still pool, ripples out into the lives of the others with disastrous consequences. Can casual infidelity ever be justified The results are inevitably far-reaching and ultimately destructive.

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This neatly woven story has three friends-and-neighbours couples at its heart...the scene is set for some passionate fallout * Good Housekeeping *

Author Bio

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.