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Cyclists Zoe and Kate are friends and athletic rivals for Olympic gold, while Kate and her husband Jack, also a world-class cyclist, must contend with the recurrence of their young daughter's leukemia.

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Main Author:	Cleave, Chris
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Simon & Schuster, c2012.
Edition:	1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Subjects:	Women cyclists > Fiction. Women athletes > Fiction. Olympic Games > (30th : > 2012 : > London, England) > Fiction. Olympics > Fiction. Female friendship > Fiction. Leukemia > Patients > Fiction. Competition (Psychology) > Fiction. Psychological fiction > England.
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Summary:	Cyclists Zoe and Kate are friends and athletic rivals for Olympic gold, while Kate and her husband Jack, also a world-class cyclist, must contend with the recurrence of their young daughter's leukemia.
Item Description:	Originally published: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2012.
Physical Description:	324 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:	9781451672725 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1451672721 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781451672732 (trade pbk. : alk. paper) 145167273X (trade pbk. : alk. paper) 9781451672749 (e-book) 1451672748 (e-book)
Author Notes:	Chris Cleave is a columnist for The Guardian newspaper in London. His first novel, Incendiary, won the 2006 Somerset Maugham Award, was shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, won the United States Book-of-the-Month Club's First Fiction Award, and won the Prix Special du Jury at the French Prix des Lecteurs 2007. His second novel, Little Bee, was shortlisted for the prestigious Costa Award for Best Novel. His third novel, Gold, was published in 2012. (Bowker Author Biography)