The Favourites

by Layne Fargo

Penguin

Wuthering Heights meets Daisy Jones and the Six – on ice skates! A fabulous peak behind the scenes of figure skating at the highest level and what it takes to make it to the Olympics. Seriously gripping and perfect for reading this Valentines Day.

Katarina Shaw has always known that she was destined to become an Olympic skater. When she meets Heath Rocha, a lonely kid stuck in the foster care system, their instant connection makes them a formidable duo on the ice.  (Get the nod to Wuthering Heights – Kat and Heath/Catherine and Heathcliff?!)  Clinging to skating – and each other – to escape their turbulent lives, Kat and Heath go from childhood sweethearts to champion ice dancers, captivating fans with their scorching – I mean, ice-meltingly hot – chemistry, rebellious style and rollercoaster relationship.

Until, at the Olympic Games – the event for which they have trained their whole lives – a shocking incident destroys their partnership.

As the ten-year anniversary of their final skate approaches, an unauthorised tell-all documentary reignites the public obsession with Shaw and Rocha.  Interviews are conducted with fellow skaters, ex-Olympic medallists, coaches, commentators and journalists but Kat can’t stand the thought of someone else defining her legacy, so after a decade of silence, she’s telling her own story. As Kat’s account of her dramatic rise and fall alternates with scandalous interviews from the film, The Favourites spins into a dance between passion, ambition and what it truly means to win.

Unputdownable!

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