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Home or Away audiobook

  • By: Kathleen West
  • Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
  • Category: Family Life, Fiction
  • Length: 11 hours 34 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2022
  • Language: English
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Home or Away Audiobook Summary

“A gloriously entertaining plunge into the ultra-competitive world of youth sports and the lengths we go to for the kids and game we love.”–New York Times bestselling author KJ Dell’Antonia

Two friends, one Olympic dream, and the choice that stood in the way.

Once Leigh and Susy were close friends and teammates bound for Olympic hockey gold, but when Leigh’s sure-fire plan to make the final roster backfired, she left everything behind to start over, including the one person who knew her secret.
 
Two decades later, Leigh’s a successful investment banker, happily married, and the mom of a hockey prodigy, so when a career opportunity lands the family back in Minnesota, Leigh takes the shot for her kid. Back in the ultra-competitive world she left behind, the move puts her in Susy’s orbit, a daily reminder of how Leigh watched from the sidelines as her former teammate went on to Olympic glory.
 
Despite the coldness between them, Susy can’t help but hope that Leigh might lace up her skates and join her in the coaches’ box—after all Leigh knows better than anyone how hard it is to be a woman in this world.  Susy knows soon her daughter, Georgie, will be seen as a “girl athlete,” relegated to the B team, with less support and opportunity to advance.
 
But Leigh believes keeping Susy at arms’ length is the only way to hide her history with her former coach Jeff Carlson. When he hints of new favors in exchange for her son’s ice time, Leigh is caught in the ultimate bind: come clean about what happened when she was an Olympic hopeful and risk her marriage or play Jeff’s game. In a moment of desperation, Leigh realizes the one person she thought was her biggest competitor—her former teammate—might turn out to be her biggest ally.
 
Told with Kathleen West’s trademark wit and compassion, Home or Away is a story about overcoming our pasts, confronting our futures, and the sustaining bonds of female friendship.

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Home or Away Full Details

Narrator Cassandra Campbell
Length 11 hours 34 minutes
Author Kathleen West
Category
Publisher Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date May 02, 2024
ISBN 9780593554012

Subjects

The publisher of the Home or Away is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: friendship, book club, olympics, mothers day gifts, mom gifts, contemporary women's fiction, parenting books, kathleen west, sports, hockey, summer books for women, family, gifts for women, women's fiction, gifts for her, realistic fiction books, fiction, novels, women, women gifts, fiction books, books fiction, parenting, chick lit, books for women, romance books, relationships, relationship books, book club recommendations, gifts for mom, mothers day, mothers, family life, motherhood, saga, drama, love story, modern, Fiction, Family Life, Fiction, Contemporary Women The BISAC Subject Code is Family Life, Fiction

Additional info

The publisher of the Home or Away is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Penguin Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780593554012.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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