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A Natural by Ross Raisin

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A Natural

Author
Ross Raisin
Narrator
Shaun Grindell
Publisher
W. F. Howes Ltd.
Publish Date
28 December 2017
Run Time
13 hours 40 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Fiction: general and literary

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Tom has always known exactly the person he is going to be. A successful footballer. A man others look up to. Now, though, the bright future he imagined for himself is threatened. The Premier League academy of his boyhood has let him go. At nineteen, Tom finds himself playing for a tiny club in a town he has never heard of. But as he navigates his isolation and his desperate need for recognition, a sudden and thrilling encounter offers him the promise of an escape, and Tom is forced to question whether he can reconcile his supressed desires with his dreams of success. Leah, the captain's wife, has almost forgotten the dreams she once held, for her career, her marriage. Moving again, as her husband is transferred from club to club, she is lost, disillusioned with where life has taken her.

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Author
Ross Raisin
Narrator
Shaun Grindell
Duration
13 hours 40 minutes
Release Date
28 December 2017
ISBN
9781528802864
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
W. F. Howes Ltd.
Genre
Fiction: general and literary

Synopsis

Tom has always known exactly the person he is going to be. A successful footballer. A man others look up to. Now, though, the bright future he imagined for himself is threatened. The Premier League academy of his boyhood has let him go. At nineteen, Tom finds himself playing for a tiny club in a town he has never heard of. But as he navigates his isolation and his desperate need for recognition, a sudden and thrilling encounter offers him the promise of an escape, and Tom is forced to question whether he can reconcile his supressed desires with his dreams of success. Leah, the captain's wife, has almost forgotten the dreams she once held, for her career, her marriage. Moving again, as her husband is transferred from club to club, she is lost, disillusioned with where life has taken her.

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