Western Lane : Shortlisted For The Booker Prize 2023

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Author: Maroo, Chetna South & South East EnglandPublished on 29 February 2024 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 176 pages198 x 130 x 12 | 164g A beautifu l and evocative novel about grief, about growing up, about losing and winning. The people and places in this book will stay with me for a long time. – Sally RooneyA Book of the Year in The Economist, The Independent, The Week, The New York Times and The GuardianA deeply moving novel about grief, sisterhood, squash and a teenage girls 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 unforgettable coming-of-age story, Chetna Maroo’s first novel is a moving exploration of the closeness of sisterhood, the immigrant experience, and the collective overcoming of grief.With this gorgeous debut, Maroo blows most of the competition off the court. – The TimesStunning . . . Spare, tender, brilliantly achieved . . . A novel that unfolds in silences . . . and dares to leave much unsaid. – The Guardian Show more