You leave your kids with a friend. Everyone does it. Until the day it goes wrong. Single mother Callie has come to rely heavily on her best friend Suzy. But Callie suspects Suzy's life isn't as simple as it seems. It's time she pulled away - going back to work is just the first step towards rediscovering her old confidence. So why does she keep putting off telling Suzy about her new job? And who will care for her rather frail daughter, Rae, while she is gone? Suzy and Callie live close to each other on a typical cramped, anonymous London street. Neighbours seem to move in, and move on, before you have even learned their names. Callie's increased sense of alienation leads her to try to befriend a new resident on her street, Debs. But Debs is anxious, odd. You wouldn't trust her with your child - especially not if you knew anything about her past. A brilliant and chilling evocation of modern life, in which friendships might be longstanding but remain superficial, and in which exhausted working parents make impulsive, instinctive decisions about the care of their children every day, "The Playdate" is a real talking-point book for mothers everywhere. "I started reading and couldn't stop ...a must-read that will tap into every mother's primal fears". (Sophie Hannah).

路易斯•米勒（Louise Millar），苏格兰作家，生于1965年。她长期担任音乐和电影杂志记者，担任过《滚石》、《打击乐》、《新音乐》、《帝国》、《嘉人》和其他女性杂志的高级编辑和特约编辑。

她的作品出现在《嘉人》、《红》、《心理》、《星》、《独立报》、《观察家》 、《魅力》、《设计师与夏娃》等报刊上。她同时是英国广播公司和爱尔兰电台的主持人。她也是《星期日泰晤士报》、《观察家》、《爱尔兰时报》的特约撰稿人，《卫报》的旅行专栏作家。

《约会游戏日》是她的第一本小说，是2011年法兰克福书展热点图书。早在初稿阶段，就售出欧洲数国版权。简单的人物、不简单的牵连、幽微隐曲的往事、触动人心的日常人伦情感、流畅的叙述、巧妙的布局，使得这横空出世的的心理惊悚小说处女作受到著名悬疑小说家苏菲•汉娜（Sophie Hannah）的大力赞赏，被《卫报》推荐为2012年最佳犯罪小说新作之一。

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