Western Lane
Author(s): Chetna Maroo
Fiction | Booker Prize Shortlist 2023
A beautiful and moving first novel about grief, sisterhood and a teenage girl'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.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : PAN MACMILLAN UK
- : Picador
- : 0.3
- : 01 June 2023
- : 216mm x 135mm x 216mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : 176
- : Paperback
- : Chetna Maroo