Western Lane (Hardcover)

'Terrific . . . A bold book [and] a quietly brilliant one' - A. D. Miller, author of Snowdrops ‘WOW. Western Lane is glorious. You’ll want to read it over and over again.‘ - Aravind Adiga, author of The White Tiger A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete‘s struggle to transcend herself. Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hold a racket. When her mother dies, her father enlists her in a quietly brutal training regimen, and the game becomes her world. Slowly, she grows apart from her sisters. Her life is reduced to the sport, guided by its rhythms: the serve, the volley, the drive, the shot and its echo. But on the court, she is not alone. She is with her pa. She is with Ged, a thirteen-year-old boy with his own formidable talent. She is with the players who have come before her. She is in awe. An indelible coming-of-age story, Chetna Maroo’s first novel captures the ordinary and annihilates it with beauty. Western Lane is a valentine to innocence, to the closeness of sisterhood, to the strange ways we come to know ourselves and each other.

General

Imprint:	Picador
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2023
Authors:	Chetna Maroo
Dimensions:	216 x 135 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	176
ISBN-13:	978-1-5290-9462-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Ball games > Racket games > Squash & rackets Promotions
LSN:	1-5290-9462-3
Barcode:	9781529094626

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