Author(s): Bali Rai
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 272
Publisher: Random House Children's Publishers UK
Language: English
Date Published: 2001-05-01
Dimensions: 128 x 194 x 20mm
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Edition: UK ed.
Illustrations: 0

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.