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Cargando... The Playground: A Novel (2019 original; edición 2019)por Jane Shemilt (Autor)
Información de la obraThe Playground por Jane Shemilt (2019)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Family The Playground is what I would call a dark suspense story. When you read this book in its entirety, you can appreciate that the author has a Master's in Creative Writing. With that being said, I guessed the gist of the "mystery" very early in the story. What kept me hooked and not wanting to put the book down were the twists and turns. Also, I was constantly shocked and baffled by parents not being parents, ESPECIALLY around children. Throw in mental problems, abuse, and more...you have a very active book. You should not be bored, unless you have read a similar book (which I had not). I think the title was well-planned. When I think of a playground, I think of children who are very happy and carefree. This book is NOT that! Lots of dark drama, conflict, and children having to grow up too quickly. It is in the top five of my favorite books read this year. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. I won a copy of The Playground through LibraryThing early reviewers. This was a great great! sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML: Big Little Lies meets Lord of The Flies in this electrifyingly twisty follow-up to Jane Shemilt's breakout debut The Daughter. Over the course of a long, hot summer in London, the lives of three very different married couples collide when their children join the same tutoring circle, resulting in illicit relationships, shocking violence, and unimaginable fallout. There's Eve, a bougie earth mother with a well-stocked trust fund; she has three little ones, a blue-collar husband and is obsessed with her Instagrammable recipes and lifestyle. And Melissa, a successful interior designer whose casually cruel banker husband is careful not to leave visible bruises; she curates her perfectly thin body so closely she misses everything their teenage daughter is hiding. Then there's Grace, a young Zimbabwean immigrant, who lives in high-rise housing project with her two children and their English father Martin, an award-winning but chronically broke novelist; she does far more for her family than she should have to. As the weeks go by, the couples become very close; there are barbecues, garden parties, a holiday at a country villa in Greece. Resentments flare. An affair begins. Unnoticed, the children run wild. The couples are busily watching each other, so distracted and self-absorbed that they forget to watch their children. No one sees the five children at their secret games or realize how much their family dynamics are changing until tragedy strikes. The story twists and then twists again while the three families desperately search for answers. It's only as they begin to unravel the truth of what happened over the summer that they realize evil has crept quietly into their world. But has this knowledge come too late? .No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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