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"Welcome to the Players Club, where you can be anyone else for a day. A cirque du soleil performer, a gonzo graffiti artist, a kink-positive participator in the BDSM scene: the Players will get you to the right place at the right time, in the right outfit, so that you can experience life as a person you might have been. There are only three rules: one day only, no repeats, and no harming a civilian. Beth Greenwood has spent her life playing it safe. She's been a graphic designer at the same company for a decade, she dutifully meets men from the apps for dinner and sometimes casual sex, sometimes she thinks about decorating her sterile, small apartment. Her comfort and joy are her Sunday catch-ups with her sister Elspeth, whose perfect life (wealthy husband, big house) has recently started to unravel. When Beth discovers the Players, she's at first enraptured. The rewards are intoxicating - the chance to walk a mile in someone else's shoes, to test the boundaries of your own identity, to live out your wildest dreams. But what the Players offer is just that -- play, and when the stakes of Beth's real life become uncomfortably high, she must ask herself, really and truly, who she's going to choose to be. THE PLAYERS CLUB is a high-concept but grounded debut about the power of female friendship, the bonds that hold us in place, and the dazzling possibility of reinvention. As immersive as it is incisive, it introduces Rachel Mills as a wise and warm chronicler of the human heart"-- Provided by publisher.
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