Good as Gold - Hardcover

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GOOD AS GOLD. To be a champion you need commitment, dedication, to be able to pick yourself off your butt when somebody's just knocked you flat. You've got to be able to reach down into yourself and ask for more even when the well is dry, because it chokes you to lose. You need that extra something and you've got it, Rachel. Are we going to squander it or hone it into something really special? If we do that it's going to cost you Rachel Southern, at 14, dreams of being an Olympic Gold Medallist. Her swimming coach thinks she has a chance, but he also knows that even after all the effort, spending the best part of your youth training, you could still be just another also-ran. It happened to him . .. Rachel's father is sure she should have the chance. He sacrifices the job he has been waiting for during two years on the dole to give it to her. Rachel's mother cannot understand Rachel's obsession or her husband's blindness to what it is doing to Rachel herself and to them as a family. .. The road to success hurts but it is also the most terrific thing that could ever happen to Rachel...

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