Interview with Chris Cleave, author of "Gold"
What would you sacrifice for the people you love?
\u201cCleave goes for the gold and brings it home in his thrillingly written and emotionally rewarding novel about the world of professional cycling \u2026 Cleave expertly cycles through the characters\u2019 tangled past and present, charting their ever-shifting dynamic as ultra-competitive Zoe and Kate are forced to decide whether winning means more to them than friendship \u2026 Cleave likewise pulls out all the stops getting inside the hearts and minds of his engagingly complex characters. The race scenes have true visceral intensity, leaving the reader feeling breathless \u2026 From start to finish, this is a truly Olympic-level literary achievement.\u201d \u2013 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY