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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Longlisted for the Women''s Prize for Fiction
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, NPR, and Kirkus

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

Western Lane

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      Publisher St Martin's Press
      Published 21 November 2023
      ISBN-13 9781250321930
      978-1250321930
      ISBN-10 125032193X

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
      Longlisted for the Women''s Prize for Fiction
      A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
      Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, NPR, and Kirkus

      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

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