{"product_id":"western-lane","title":"Western Lane","description":"Shortlisted for the Booker Prize\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction\u003cbr\u003eA New York Times Notable Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, NPR, and Kirkus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete’s struggle to transcend herself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEleven-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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. She is with the players who have come before her. She is in awe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn indelible coming-of-age story, Chetna Maroo’s first novel captures the ordinary and annihilates it with beauty. Western Lane is a valentine to innocence, to the closeness of sisterhood, to the strange ways we come to know ourselves and each other.","brand":"Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47838537253090,"sku":"MTO-MACMILLAN-2026-05-29-7.65-98","price":39.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/9898\/5881\/files\/book_97_NbbAxg0fM.jpg?v=1780072517","url":"https:\/\/layitflat.com\/en-ca\/products\/western-lane","provider":"Lay it Flat Publishing Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}