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Layne Fargo
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick.
Everyone thinks Heath Rocha was my first love. He wasn't. My first love was figure skating.
Katarina Shaw has always known she’s 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. 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 chemistry, rebellious style and rollercoaster relationship.
Until, at the Olympic Games, as the world holds its breath, a shocking incident instantly destroys their partnership.
Ten years later, an unauthorised tell-all documentary reignites the public obsession with Shaw and Rocha. If Kat wants to own her story, she must break her silence. 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.
Sensational rumours have haunted Kat and Heath’s every step for years, but the truth may be even more outrageous than the headlines.
‘Part Wuthering Heights and part Daisy Jones and the Six . . . As brilliantly choreographed as a gold-medal performance’ JODI PICOULT
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- Avid Listener
- 12-03-2025
Wuthering Heights on ice
The production of this was simply stellar, the casting of Ellis and Frannie particularly good. I have hate read Wuthering Heights several times so I almost abandoned this half way though because I wasn’t sure I could take the tragedy and trauma. I am glad I persisted to the end, it was worth it. I’m not usually one for overt metatextuality, but the last dance really needed to be to the Kate Bush song; might as well go the whole hog.
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- Mia Lauze
- 26-01-2025
Scandal and sequins - what’s not to love?
This story works so well as an audiobook. It’s full of twists and turns and exposes the dark side of glamorous world of ice dancing.
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- Anonymous User
- 19-03-2025
Loved it!
Loved the story and the characters, nice to listen to with different voices for the characters! X
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- Kindle Customer
- 17-01-2025
4.5 stars. Felt like I was watching a movie.
I loved this audiobook.It felt like this novel was a child of 'Daisy Jones and the Six' by Taylor Jenkins Reid. I took of 0.5 stars because the main characters were kinda annoying. Hope this novel gets made into movie one day.
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- Kelly Williams
- 10-02-2025
Book of 2025
I could not have lived this more. The audio experience is nothing short of amazing 5 starts all around 🙌🏼🫶🏼
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- Anonymous User
- 15-02-2025
Loved this Audiobook
Such a well performed audiobook. Couldn’t stop listening. The story is pretty basic but I loved it
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- Julie Louise Williams
- 05-02-2025
DNF. Just couldn’t get into it.
As above. Sadly could not get interested. Narration was fine, just slow story and not very interesting for me.
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