Blood Sweat Glitter

The Primrose Glitter Girls play ROLLER DERBY and they're here to DESTROY YOU! Well, they're trying. Team captain Eleanor Ashwell has problems. Her fresh meat skaters are terrified, her blockers fall over when people look at them funny, and if the Glitter Girls don't start winning bouts soon they're going to be chucked out of the league. And off the track, things are no better: Eleanor's job as a nursing sister is overwhelming her, and friends and lovers seem to be drifting away. Robin, Eleanor's pretty-in-pink new jammer, is hawk-fast and fearless, and she's a brilliant skater to boot. But she's never on time, she forgets her kit, she comes to practice in stupid frilly dresses, and according to Eleanor, she has no respect for the traditions of the game. It's only because the team needs her so badly that Eleanor is teaching her to play at all. But ditzy, silly Robin isn't quite what she appears to be. And if Eleanor can see past that candy-pink exterior, then there might be some things Robin can teach her, too. About how to win, how to lose, how to rediscover a little glitter in her life. How to get herself back up from where she's fallen—and how to fall in love.