WESTERN LANE

For fans of David Chariandys Brother, this gem-like novel announces a startling literary talent and packs an emotional punch through controlled prose and narrative precision. Western Lane is the story of Gopi, the youngest of three sisters who live with their father on the outskirts of London. Their mother has died, their fathers grief is palpable but unarticulated. Far away in Edinburgh their uncle and aunt worry and wait: unable to have children, the couples wish to take a niece into their home and raise her as their own hangs over ...[Read more]