Western Lane

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.

Product details

• Authors: Chetna Maroo
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.05.2023
• EAN: 9781529094626
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-9462-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 224 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Family Life / Siblings, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Coming of age, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, c 2010 to c 2020, FICTION / World Literature / England / 21st Century, South & South East England, South and South East England, FICTION / Own Voices, Squash & Rackets, Squash and rackets (racquets)