Playing Nice A Novel
Playing Nice A Novel by JP Delaney is a psychological thriller published by Ballantine Books in 2020, featuring 416 pages in English. The story begins when Pete Riley answers the door to Miles Lambert, who reveals a shocking truth: Pete’s son, Theo, was switched at birth with the Lamberts’ child. This revelation sends both families into turmoil as they grapple with the implications of their intertwined lives and the reality of their parenthood.
As the families attempt to navigate their new circumstances, they are drawn together by shared intentions but face mounting tensions and distrust. The narrative explores themes of family, identity, and the lengths one will go to protect loved ones. With an official investigation into the hospital’s role in the switch, unsettling questions arise about trust and hidden secrets. Readers will find a complex web of relationships and moral dilemmas as Pete and Maddie confront the challenges of their new reality, ultimately leading them to a point where they are no longer willing to play nice.
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What if you found out that your family isn’t yours at all? How far would you go to protect them? A gripping new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of The Girl Before. . . .
“[JP] Delaney takes domestic suspense beyond its comfort zone.”–Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review
Pete Riley answers the door one morning and lets in a parent’s worst nightmare. On his doorstep is Miles Lambert, a stranger who breaks the devastating news that Pete’s son, Theo, isn’t actually his son–he is the Lamberts’, switched at birth by an understaffed hospital while their real son was sent home with Miles and his wife, Lucy. For Pete, his partner Maddie, and the little boy they’ve been raising for the past two years, life will never be the same again.
The two families, reeling from the shock, take comfort in shared good intentions, eagerly entwining their very different lives in the hope of becoming one unconventional modern family. But a plan to sue the hospital triggers an official investigation that unearths some disturbing questions about the night their children were switched. How much can they trust the other parents–or even each other? What secrets are hidden behind the Lamberts’ glossy front door? Stretched to the breaking point, Pete and Maddie discover they will each stop at nothing to keep their family safe.
They are done playing nice.
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