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Playing Away

By: Adele Parks
Narrated by: Hailey Bolton
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Summary

She’s playing with fire.....

From the Sunday Times best-selling author of Just My Luck and Both of You, this instant best seller is irresistible, unpauseable and the nearest thing you'll get to an affair without actually having one....

If you loved Adele Parks's Sunday Times number one best seller Lies Lies Lies, you won't want to miss Connie's story in Playing Away....

Connie Green's life should be perfect. She's married to gentle, loving Luke, has a good job and really fabulous friends. She thinks she can't be happier.

But she's just met John Harding.

Spectacularly unsuitable and overwhelmingly sexy, he's about to destroy her peace of mind and her happily ever after, yet she just can't seem to resist.

And to have any chance of clearing her head, Connie needs to get out of John's bed....

©2021 Adele Parks (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Critic reviews

"A smart cross between Friends and Sex in the City." (USA Today)

"A very edgy book, it’s also wickedly funny and very sexy." (Publishers Weekly)

"Uniquely comical." (New York Times)

"Compulsively addictive and involved with sexual passion and bad decisions." (Elle)

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Enjoyable

Chick Audio. I enjoyed it. Easy listening, resonated in lots of ways, Ending could of been a bit less obvious

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Loved the story but the ending was abrupt & a bit disappointing

I really enjoyed this story & the ending is as you’d like but the ending came very quickly & ended abruptly which left me a little disappointed.

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Disappointing

I really struggled to finish this book. Good premise but oh so badly written! Disappointing.

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Absolutely dreadful!

Can’t imagine after a few chapters how I could bear to listen further. No substance whatsoever!


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Boring

Read several of her books but this was the worst one such a shame such a boring story


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Couldn’t finish it

This is the worst book I have listened to in a while. It is difficult to get into and then when you do it’s like it has been written by a teenager. I couldn’t take any more of the accounts of the sexual liaisons, they were about as sexy as a bad cold. Have given up and will return it half listened to.

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Absolute garbage

A very unlikeable, self-obsessed main character and a ridiculous plot line. The constant references to sex through the book are badly written and painful to listen to. Ending was predicable and silly. Don't bother

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Brilliant

Different from anything I had read / listened to before, definitely not a Mills and Boon. Had previously read Lies, Lies, Lies and thoroughly enjoyed it, so my next choice had to be another Adele Park. Playing Away, was brilliant.

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