(Un)arranged Marriage

By Bali Rai

The Originals

JUVENILE FICTION

320 Pages, 5 x 7.75

Formats: Trade Paper

Trade Paper, $15.95 (US $15.95)

Publication Date: August 2018

ISBN 9780241343067

Rights: US

Penguin Random House UK (Aug 2018)
Penguin UK

Price:	$15.95

Overview

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.

Reviews

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

Author Biography

Bali Rai's first novel for young adults, (Un)Arranged Marriage, created a huge amount of interest and won many awards, including the Angus Book Award and the Leicester Book of the Year. It was also shortlisted for the prestigious Branford Boase first novel award. Rani and Sukh and The Whisper were both shortlisted for the Booktrust Teenage Prize. Bali is also the author of the hugely popular Soccer Squad series for younger readers.

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