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Training Ground

Girls of Summer, Book 1

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Training Ground

By: Kate Christie
Narrated by: Britney Gil
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About this listen

Sometimes a chance meeting can change everything.

At 15, Jamie Maxwell’s main goals in life are to make the United States youth national soccer pool, move past the Incident-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named, and maybe - someday - kiss a girl. When she meets Emma Blakeley at a tournament in Southern California, something about the older girl draws her in. And it isn’t that she expects to ever get the chance to kiss Emma. Really.

When Jamie invites her to sneak out on the last night of Surf Cup, Emma doesn’t go because she likes Jamie’s smile. She goes because, as the daughter of a surgeon and a nurse, she has a genetic predisposition to try to heal people. And Jamie, she can tell, is wounded.

Neither girl suspects that this first last night together will form the basis of a bond that will last across years and miles, from SoCal soccer fields and New York hotels to Portuguese beaches and the streets of Vancouver. But that’s how most friendships begin, isn’t it? With a smile and a nod and the courage to ask, “Do you maybe, possibly, want to come with me”?

©2016 Kate Christie (P)2019 Kate Christie Fiction LGBTQ+ Literature & Fiction Romance Sports

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high school seen through the eyes of two girls who love football , one with a dark secret openly baby butch, the older girl femme wondering if she's " ambi-sextrous", lol love that, becoming friends, sharing thier love of the sport, both develop feelings but are afraid of endangering thier friendship, a family death, a fateful kiss, moving for college and dating others fray the edges that they may not be able to cope with.
at times harrowing and distressing, the writing is a superb insight into teenage angst.
love the narration, voice inflection perfect for the subject matters.
book 2 will see them as young adults, I can't wait

teenage +

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Superb story, superbly written, superb narration.
Totally hooked.
Going straight to book 2.
Really hope things work out for Jamie and Emma.

Superb

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If you are into football books, this will be a good book for you. The book has left it so you need to read book 2 to carry on the story, there are 5 books altogether in this series of Girls of Summer. This book was about self discovery and friendship.

The narrator did a good job, and made the book easy to listen too.

Football

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