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Imprint: RHCP Digital
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Published: 30/09/2011
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ISBN: 9781446498859
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Length: 272 Pages
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RRP: £7.99
MANNY WANTS TO BE A FOOTBALLER. OR A POP STAR. OR WRITE A BESTSELLER. HE DOESN'T WANT TO GET MARRIED...
'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...'
Set partly in the UK and partly in the Punjab region of India, this is a fresh, bitingly perceptive and totally up-to-the-minute look at one young man's fight to free himself from family expectations and to be himself, free to dance to his own tune.
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Imprint: RHCP Digital
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Published: 30/09/2011
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ISBN: 9781446498859
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Length: 272 Pages
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RRP: £7.99
Reviews
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"Any teenager under pressure from his or her parents to conform will enjoy this novel"
Guardian
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"Rai has an unselfconscious style and a dry sense of the ridiculous . . . An appealing subversive edge"
TES
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"Absorbing and engaging . . . A highly readable debut from Bali Rai that teenagers of any culture will identify with"
Observer
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"Energetically and pacily written . . . There is a vitality and freshness about Rai's writing that engages the reader . . . An intriguing debut that promises well for the future"
Books for Keeps
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"Brilliant"
Amanda Craig, The Times
