Marriage Games

by Amanda Brookfield

On the same afternoon that a terrorist bomb sends tremors through the ancient foundations of their town, the fuse of infidelity is ignited. And others are caught in the crossfire, among them an anguished, lovelorn priest, and an ill-intentioned neighbour with a dubious agenda...

Genres: Fiction

304 pages, Paperback

First published August 20, 1998

About the author

I have two elder sisters and a twin brother who is much quieter than me and with much longer legs. Our Dad was in the Foreign Office so we spent our childhood living in far-flung places like Shanghai and Stockholm. In fact, until the age of 32 I had never spent more than 3 years under the same roof...it's left me with the opposite of 'itchy feet'.
I fell in love with writing aged 11 when my class was asked to write a ghost story - that thrill of being able to make it all up! Studying English at Oxford was a dream come true, but then real life got in the way and I started a career in advertising, climbing the greasy pole for four years, helping sell washing powder and cold remedies.
Aged 25, I got the chance to go and live in Argentina. I left advertising, set myself up as a freelance journalist and wrote my first novel,'Alice Alone' which was published (to critical acclaim!) in 1989. I haven't stopped,or looked back, since.
I am now published by Penguin. At the last count I had produced fifteen novels and two sons. There will be no more offspring, but lots of books I hope.

Reviews

[Harry Tomos · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoy reading Amanda Brookfield something about the way she writes, the undercurrent of pain or unhappiness in a relationship is always really well told...with a splash of humour.I liked the fact that this almost worked out well and ends up on it's way...The crazy next door neighbour and the twist with another character which is unexpected and also part of the it not being fixed perfectly that there are casualties...I guess that's the underlying realism to the book.

[Charlie Trafford · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was drawn to this book because it involves once again the complicated lives of families, a seemingly happy and ordered relationship between two sets of families starts to break down, exposing secrets and difficulties that on the surface does not seem to exist, another great page turner that I will definitely read again.

[Teresa D · Rating 1 out of 5]

Tedious, all they had to do was talk to each other !