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What would you sacrifice for the people you love?
July 2012
On Sale: July 10, 2012
320 pages
ISBN: 1451672721
EAN: 9781451672725
Kindle: B0061PEFZO
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Fiction Family Life
KATE AND ZOE met at nineteen when they both made the cut for
the national training program in track cycling—a sport that
demands intense focus, blinding exertion, and unwavering
commitment. They are built to exploit the barest physical
and psychological edge over equally skilled rivals, all of
whom are fighting for the last one tenth of a second that
separates triumph from despair. Now at thirty-two, the women are facing their last and
biggest race: the 2012 Olympics. Each wants desperately to
win gold, and each has more than a medal to lose. Kate is the more naturally gifted, but the demands of her
life have a tendency to slow her down. Her eight-year-old
daughter Sophie dreams of the Death Star and of battling
alongside the Rebels as evil white blood cells ravage her
personal galaxy—she is fighting a recurrence of the leukemia
that nearly killed her three years ago. Sophie doesn’t want
to stand in the way of her mum’s Olympic dreams, but each
day the dark forces of the universe seem to be massing
against her. Devoted and self-sacrificing Kate knows her daughter is
fragile, but at the height of her last frenzied months of
training, might she be blind to the most terrible prognosis? Intense, aloof Zoe has always hovered on the periphery of
real human companionship, and her compulsive need to win at
any cost has more than once threatened her friendship with
Kate—and her own sanity. Will she allow her obsession, and
the advantage she has over a harried, anguished mother, to
sever the bond they have shared for more than a decade? Echoing the adrenaline-fueled rush of a race around the
Velodrome track, Gold is a triumph of superbly paced,
heart-in-throat storytelling. With great humanity and
glorious prose, Chris Cleave examines the values that lie at
the heart of our most intimate relationships, and the
choices we make when lives are at stake and everything is on
the line.
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