| ‘Any teenager under pressure from his or her parents to conform will enjoy this novel’
Guardian
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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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| ‘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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| ‘Rai has an unselfconscious style, and a dry sense of the ridiculous… an appealing subervise edge’
Times Educational Supplement
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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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| A feature about teenage fiction to coincide with the EIBF.
Stephen Russell The Big Issue In Scotland
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| Brilliant Anglo-Asian writer exploring alienation in Leicester's Punjabi culture.
Amanda Craig The Times
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Corgi Childrens • Fiction dealing with multiculturalism •
12 + year olds •
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ISBN: 0552547344
Publication date: 01/05/2001 • 272 pages • B format
• EAN: 9780552547345
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