Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023

Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2023

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024

A deeply moving novel about grief, sisterhood, squash and a teenage girl's struggle to transcend herself.

Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hold a racket. When her mother dies, her father enlists her in a quietly brutal training regimen, and the game becomes her world. Slowly, 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.

But 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. She is with the players who have come before her. She is in awe.

An unforgettable coming-of-age story, Chetna Maroo’s first novel is a moving exploration of the closeness of sisterhood, the immigrant experience, and the collective overcoming of grief.

Author :  Chetna Maroo

Edition : Pan Macmillan, Paperback, 196 pages

Publication Date: 29th February 2024

ISBN : 9781529094640

Condition: Like new - although very small tear in media blurbs on second page of book

Weight: 163g
Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 12 mm