Bali Rai (un)arranged marriage

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.