Gold - by Chris Cleave (Paperback)

About the Book

The latest novel from Cleave--the award-winning and international #1 bestselling author of "Little Bee"--is "a heartstring-tugger with an adrenaline-fueled plot" ("People") that asks: how much are we willing to sacrifice for the people we love?

Book Synopsis

The latest novel from Chris Cleave--the award-winning and international #1 bestselling author of Little Bee--is "a heartstring-tugger with an adrenaline-fueled plot" (People) that asks: how much are we willing to sacrifice for the people we love?IT'S THE ULTIMATE TEST OF A MOTHER'S LOVE . . . IF your dreams pull you in one direction and your heart in another, which should you follow? This is the question that haunts Kate Meadows, a world champion athlete whose eight-year-old daughter Sophie is battling a recurrence of childhood leukemia just as Kate is about to compete for her last chance at an Olympic gold medal. For years, Kate has sacrificed everything for her family and watched her best friend and closest rival, Zoe Castle, conquer the world stage. Kate has never won gold and will have to go through Zoe--who has everything to lose--to get it. Now her child is facing a life-threatening illness, and the stakes are higher than ever. How can she do what is right for her daughter without abandoning all of her dreams?

Review Quotes

"Chris Cleave's latest novel lives and breathes, sweats and suffers at the harrowing place where ambition collides with sacrifice. That it arrives on the eve of the 2012 Olympic Games in London is perfect timing on the part of Cleave and publisher Simon & Schuster, but Gold would be first class anytime, anywhere. It's an adrenaline-fueled drama about winning and losing, in the velodrome and daily existence, an explosive exploration of the cost of success and the way sports competition can spill unhappily into life. It will force you to reconsider the definition of "victory," and it will leave you breathless . . . Cleave proves again that if writing were an Olympic sport, he'd be vying for a medal."-Miami Herald