{"product_id":"western-lane-by-chetna-maroo-9781035041879","title":"Western Lane","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWOW. Western Lane is glorious. You'll want to read it over and over again.\u003c\/em\u003e - Aravind Adiga, author of \u003cem\u003eThe White Tiger\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete's struggle to transcend herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEleven-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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn indelible coming-of-age story, Chetna Maroo's first novel captures the ordinary and annihilates it with beauty. \u003cem\u003eWestern Lane\u003c\/em\u003e is a valentine to innocence, to the closeness of sisterhood, to the strange ways we come to know ourselves and each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLONG-LISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48244826767596,"sku":"9781035041879","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781035041879-western-lane-1.jpg?v=1788017218","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/western-lane-by-chetna-maroo-9781035041879","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}