A page-turner of a novel set in the world of cricket in Mumbai Fourteen-year-old Manjunath Kumar knows that he is good at cricket - even if he's not as good as his elder brother Radha. He knows that he fears and resents his cricket-obsessed father. But there are many things about himself and the world that he doesn't know. When he meets Radha's great rival - a boy as privileged and confident as Manju is not - everything in his world begins to change, and he is faced with decisions that will change his sense of self forever.