{"product_id":"western-lane","title":"Western Lane","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hold a racket.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen her mother dies, her father enlists her in a quietly brutal training regimen, and the game becomes her world. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSlowly, 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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chetna Maroo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43876356587777,"sku":"9781529094640","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/SIMPLEWEBSITEPRODUCTIMAGE-2024-02-29T102609.753.png?v=1709202426","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.pro\/products\/western-lane","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}