The Playdate - Louise Millar

Date Started: 9/6/2014
Date Finished: 9/6/2014

Meh.

I didn't love this book. I didn't hate it. It was a quick read that amounted to a lot of build up with very little pay off. Yes, all neighbors have secrets...were the ones here really so hard to see? I didn't think so.


Here's the Amazon back-of-the-book summary:

In a quiet London suburb, a group of mothers relies on each other for friendship, favors, and gossip. But some of them shouldn’t be trusted, and others have dark secrets.

When Callie moved into her new neighborhood, she thought it would be easy to fit in. The other parents have been strangely hostile, though, and her frail daughter Rae is finding it impossible to make friends. Suzy, with her rich husband and her three energetic children, has been the only one to reach out, although their friendship has recently felt inexplicably strained. Now the police have suggested that someone dangerous may be living in their neighborhood, and the atmosphere feels even more toxic. Then there’s the matter of Callie’s ex-husband, and the shocking truth behind their divorce . . . a truth that she would do anything to hide.

Suzy is the crazy one. Callie had a one-night stand with Suzy's husband way before she ever knew Suzy and (shocker!) he is Rae's real father. Debs is an innocent bystander who actually ends up saving Rae when Suzy tried to hurt her in an arranged car accident. The end.