TY - BOOK AU - Shemilt,Jane TI - The playground: a novel SN - 9780062952172 AV - PR6119.H463 P53 2019 U1 - F SHE PY - 2019/// PB - William Morrow KW - Married people KW - Fiction KW - Couples KW - Families KW - Parent and child KW - Secrecy KW - Spousal abuse KW - Adultery KW - FICTION / Family Life KW - bisacsh KW - FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological KW - FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense KW - fast KW - sears KW - Parent-child relationship KW - London (England) KW - England KW - London KW - Thrillers (Fiction) KW - Domestic fiction KW - Novels KW - Suspense fiction KW - gsafd KW - lcgft N2 - When their children join the same tutoring circle, the lives of three London couples collide. The results: illicit relationships, shocking violence, and unimaginable fallout. There's Eve, a bougie earth mother with a well-stocked trust fund; Melissa, a successful interior designer whose casually cruel banker husband is careful not to leave visible bruises; and Grace, a young Zimbabwean immigrant living in a high-rise housing project, doing far more for her family than she should have to. The couples become so distracted and self-absorbed that no one sees the five children at their secret games-- or realize how much their family dynamics are changing until tragedy strikes. -- adapted from jacket ER -