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WESTERN LANE - CHETNA MAROO GEBUNDEN

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023 Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024
Longlisted for the William Hill Award 2023 A BBC Arts & The Reading Agency's Big Sporting Read
selection  Selected by Dua Lipa as one of Service95's 'Books of the Year'  'A beautiful 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 Rooney  author of Normal People   A
deeply moving 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
unforgettable coming-of-age story  Chetna Maroo's Western Lane is an exploration of the
closeness of sisterhood  the immigrant experience  and the collective overcoming of grief.  A
'Book of the Year' in The Economist   The Independent   The Week   The New York Times and The
Guardian    'With this gorgeous debut  Maroo blows most of the competition off the court.' -
The Times   'Stunning . . . Spare  tender  brilliantly achieved . . . A novel that unfolds in
silences . . . and dares to leave much unsaid.' - The Guardian

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