Book description
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.
Bali Rai is a new author to Corgi. Having grown up in the heart of
Leicester's Sikh community, he went to London to study politics. He
has since returned to his home town and currently manages a city
centre bar. (UN)ARRANGED MARRIAGE is his debut novel.
Author lives: Leicester
