When the Family You Have... Isn't Yours, at All (Playing Nice REVIEW)
Find someone special, settle down together, start a family; that’s always been, well… the dream, at best, or in any case, where life ends up, for most people. Today—with a whole fabulous rainbow of possibilities for what a “family” unit might look like—having some variation on the theme is still what the majority of us seemingly want. And, once we have the family, it’s only natural we feel the need to protect it—parents to safeguard their children, siblings to look out for each other, etc.—from all the things that can go wrong or bad in our world. But what would happen if a family discovered something completely unthinkable… like finding out that they weren’t, in fact, the family they thought they were? JP Delaney explores how that scenario might go down in his latest psychological thriller, Playing Nice . _______________ Pete Riley and his partner Maddie are more or less your average, struggling young parents. Things are a little tense, with Pete not getting done muc...