Playing with Fire

by Mary Larkin (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2001

  $5.82

  Susan's boyfriend, Jim, is a Catholic, a fact which Jim knows dooms the relationship. When he realizes Susan is hinting at marriage, he leaves her and she ends up being comforted by her sister's boyfriend. Her resulting pregnancy means she must flee Belfast: but she won't reveal the baby's father.

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.25

  Susan's boyfriend of six months, Jim, is a Catholic and her parents haven't yet found out. Jim has said all along that their romance is doomed and she must understand this - but, in fact, neither can bear not to see each other. Finally, Jim realises Susan is angling for a marriage proposal and he knows he must end their relationship. Susan is distraught and ends up being comforted (too much so!) by her sister Alison's current boyfriend, Graham, resulting in a pregnancy. Susan flees to her aunt in Darlington in shame, but has to return to Belfast when her mother has a stroke and Graham is in a car accident.
  Susan gives birth to a beautiful son but still refuses to tell anyone who the father is. And there are now three men in her life - Jim, who doesn't want to be the stepfather of someone else's son; Graham, who believes he is the father and who loves Susan and believes she loves him; and Donald, a man she met in Darlington...