I haven't read either book so it may be hard for me to compare them to my example that I think comes close to yours. The movie Trouble with the Curve. The setting and 'world' defining plot aspects of all three is major league baseball. Clint Eastwood as the grizzled baseball scout and Amy Adams as his beautiful tomboy (highly successful lawyer) daughter were great actors to make this movie charming, interesting, and believable. A particular plot element that explained a lot and moved the story forward was finding out that Amy Adam's character Mickey had lost her mother at a young age. Her father Gus, played by Clint Eastwood, sent her to live with her aunt and uncle because he couldn't take care of her being on the road so much. They both
