num_pages: 352
description: I Don't Know How She Does It meets Unfaithful as a west side Manhattan mother joins an east side playgroup and the playing turns into high voltage sex and other dangerous games.Before she signed up for the mommy role, Ellie Fuller was a stand-up comic, a good best friend, and a secret bulimic. As part of her recovery she adopts a whole new lifestyle, but when she takes a knowing step into unknown territory, that recovery and everything else is suddenly in jeopardy. At the Park Avenue playgroup where Ellie takes her daughter, Ellie meets Missy Hanover, an elegant ice princess who tempts her with what Ellie believes she might be missing. Ellie is soon in the midst of a secret affair and darker romantic entanglements, but the cracks begin to show. A skillful, addictive first novel that feeds right into the frenzy for "mommy" fiction.
language: English
title: The Playgroup
titlecomplete: The Playgroup
genres: Chick Lit, Fiction
ratings_count: 87
publisher: St. Martin's Press