Sidelines

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2024
Edition: First Edition

Description: 343 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: A teenage sports game descends into a brawl after a controversial line call in a fast-paced contemporary novel from the bestselling author of The Orchardists Daughter.Sidelines is a riveting novel. It takes our jittery, intensely competitive era and unpicks our self-deceptions until they bleed. - Jane Caro, bestselling author of The MotherWhen a violent brawl erupts at a suburban junior soccer game, some onlookers are shocked. But others saw it coming. Rivalry, parental pressure, coaching bias, inequity, and many other factors have played a part in turning Saturday mornings into a pressure cooker.Thirteen-year-old Audrey is a talented young football player. But does she want to play for Australia or does she just want to please her father, Ben, whose own thwarted sporting career looms large in his ambitions for his daughter Audreys mother, Jonica, doesnt know whether to be more concerned about her anxious daughter, her overbearing husband, or the only other girl on the team, Katerina, who is causing trouble on and off the field. And Katerinas mother, Carmen, is so busy looking for opportunities to give Katerina more game time that she fails to notice what is really capturing her daughters attention. When Griffin, a naturally gifted player with spectacular skills, arrives, the tension within the team reaches boiling point. But who is going to crack first - the parents or the playersEssential - and thrilling - reading for all parents.KATE MILDENHALLSometimes a novel comes along that says what youve been thinking.MALCOLM KNOXwill leave you wondering if perhaps winning and losing are the same thing.GABBIE STROUDViggers shines a light on the ways competition can pull us together or drive us apart.INGA SIMPSON

ISBN: 9781761470714