‘Harry and Ranjit were waiting for me – waiting to take me to Derby, to a wedding. My wedding. A wedding that I hadn’t asked for, that I didn’t want. To a girl who I didn’t know… If they had bothered to open their eyes, they would have seen me: seventeen, angry, upset but determined – determined to do my own thing, to choose my own path in life…’ Manny has plenty of ambitions — scoring goals, topping the charts, writing a bestseller — but getting married isn’t one of them. Reissued in Penguin’s ORIGINALS series of powerful teenage fiction, this sharply observed and vividly contemporary story follows one young man’s determined struggle to break free from family expectations. Moving between the UK and the Punjab region of India, it offers a fresh and bitingly perceptive portrait of the tension between culture, identity, and the right to forge your own future.
ISBN 13: 9780241343067
Author: Bali Rai
