Playdate

Name: Playdate
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Thelma Adams
ISBN: 9781611201000

Author: Thelma Adams

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Unabridged: 8 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Published: 02/15/2011

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Lance is a former weatherman, now a buff yogi, and stay-at-home dad. Belle is his precocious and quick-witted daughter. Darlene is a classic Type A work-a-holic, she has little time or patience for the needs of her husband and daughter. And just down the street are Alec and Wren. Alec, a womanizing businessman, is also the financial backer - and sometimes more - behind Darlene's burgeoning empire. Meanwhile, Wren is a talented yogi, ready to lay down the mat for a quick session with Lance. As looming Santa Ana winds threaten to turn brushfires into catastrophe, Playdate proves that relationships are complicated and what happens next door, beyond the hedges, in the executive office - it's all as combustible as a quick brushfire on a windy day.

About Thelma Adams

Us Weekly film critic Thelma Adams has served as Chair of the New York Film Critics Circle. She has written for the New York Times, The New York Post, Marie Claire, O, and More. She has appeared on CNN, E!, NBC's The Today Show, CBS's The Early Show, Access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight, Bravo, and VH1. She lives in New York with her husband, son, daughter three cats, one spaniel, and a flock of wild turkeys.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Crystal on July 14, 2011

Hello. I hated these characters. Don't people feel guilty about cheating anymore? Lance didn't seem to feel much guilt at all. What if Wren was having his baby? He didn't seem to care to investigate. The characters in this book were not likable except for the children. I was disappointed that no one......more

Goodreads review by Sierra on May 17, 2013

This novel basically takes Tom Perrota's "Little Children" and fashions the same storyline into something more blatantly obvious and cliche. The message was often spelled out across the page and the major conflict of care-giving fathers seemed overly dramatized. I didn't hate this book, but I often......more

Goodreads review by Michael on December 08, 2010

Lance is a former weatherman turned house-husband. His wife, Darlene, is busy opening up the first in what could be a chain of new restaurants targeted at working mothers. The two have one child, sixth grader Belle. They're considering having more and while Lance is excited, Darlene may not be as ent......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on June 10, 2013

I did not expect to like this book as much as I did. It’s billed as a “satirical romp” and I love a good satirical romp. However, about three paragraphs in I discovered the little (teensy tiny) beachside town the author is skewering is my own! Yikes! Still, I loved this. It absolutely pokes fun but h......more

Goodreads review by Anita on March 05, 2011

I love this book. Thelma Adams is a very witty writer and the story rings too true.A very enjoyable read.......more