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(Un)arranged Marriage

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241343067

  • Length: 320  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 225g

  • RRP: £7.99

(Un)arranged Marriage

Reissued in Penguin's ORIGINALS series of powerful teenage fiction.

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.

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241343067

  • Length: 320  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 225g

  • RRP: £7.99

Reviews

  • This is a highly readable debut from Bali Rai that teenagers of any culture will identify with.

    The Guardian

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About the Author

Bali Rai

Having grown up in the heart of Leicester's Sikh community, Bali Rai went to London to study Politics. After managing a bar and thinking about becoming a journalist, he now devotes all his time to writing and visiting schools to talk about his books. He is the author of a number of titles for the Random House Children's list, several of which have won awards or been shortlisted; including Unarranged Marriage, which won four regional awards and was shortlisted for five others!The Whisper was shortlisted for the prestigious BookTrust Teenage Prize. Soccer Squad is his first younger book for the RHCB lists.

Bali Rai

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