{"product_id":"9781529094626","title":"Western Lane : Longlisted For The Booker Prize 2023","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Maroo, Chetna \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eSouth \u0026amp; South East England\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 11 May 2023 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 176 pages\u003cbr\u003e143 x 226 x 22 | 292g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLonglisted for the Booker Prize 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA beautiful and moving novel about grief, sisterhood and a teenage girl's struggle to transcend herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'WOW. Western Lane is glorious. You'll want to read it over and over again.' - Aravind Adiga, author of The White TigerEleven-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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Few novelists write this simply and richly. With this gorgeous debut, Maroo blows most of the competition off the court.' - The Times'Feels like the work of a writer who knows what they want to do, and who has the rare ability to do it.' - The Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40578868117639,"sku":"9781529094626","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/products\/9781529094626.jpg?v=1710422359","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.co.uk\/products\/9781529094626","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}