Full name: Gold: A Novel

Author: Chris Cleave Year: 2012 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Sports, Contemporary Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781451672732 145167273X

Building on the tradition of Little Bee, Chris Cleave again writes with elegance, humor, and passion about friendship, marriage, parenthood, tragedy, and redemption. Gold is the story of Zoe and Kate, world-class athletes who have been friends and rivals since their first day of Elite training. They've loved, fought, betrayed, forgiven, consoled, gloried, and grown up together. Now on the eve of London 2012, their last Olympics, both women will be tested to their physical and emotional limits. They must confront each other and their own mortality to decide, when lives are at stake: What would you sacrifice for the people you love, if it meant giving up the thing that was most important to you in the world? Similar books: The Courtyard by Marcia Willett Swimming by Nicola Keegan The Upright Piano Player by David Abbott Lamb in Love by Carrie Brown Wide Open by Nicola Barker Friday Nights by Joanna Trollope Dangerous Parking by Stuart Browne Tom Bedlam by George Hagen The Sea Lady by Margaret Drabble The New Moon with the Old by Dodie Smith All Is Vanity by Christina Schwarz The Book Club by Mary Alice Monroe The House on Fortune Street by Margot Livesey Castle Dor by Daphne Du Maurier Best Friends by Martha Moody A Life Intercepted by Charles Martin Little Bee by Chris Cleave Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout