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Northern Boy
A big Bollywood dream. A small-town chance.
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Billy Elliot meets Bend It Like Beckham in this unforgettable debut about aiming high and defying expectation—the perfect uplifting read this year. Joyful, defiant and dazzling, this is the story of Rafi Aziz, a Northern boy dreaming of his name up in lights. It's 1981 in...
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Billy Elliot meets Bend It Like Beckham in this unforgettable debut about aiming high and defying expectation—the perfect uplifting read this year.
Joyful, defiant and dazzling, this is the story of Rafi Aziz, a Northern boy dreaming of his name up in lights.
It's 1981 in the suburbs of Blackburn, and as Rafi's mother reminds him daily, the family moved here from Pakistan to give him the best opportunities. But Rafi longs to follow his own path. Flamboyant, dramatic and musically gifted, he wants to be a Bollywood star.
Twenty years later, Rafi is flying home from Australia for his best friend's wedding. He has everything he ever wanted: starring roles in musical theatre, the perfect boyfriend and freedom from expectation. But returning to Blackburn is the ultimate test: can he show his true self to his community?
Navigating family and identity from boyhood to adulthood, as well as the changing eras of ABBA, skinheads and urbanisation, Rafi must follow his heart to achieve his dreams.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781800183148
Publisher: Boundless Publishing Group Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 June 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Boundless Publishing Group Ltd
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 368
About the Author
Iqbal Hussain is a writer from Blackburn, Lancashire and he lives in London. His work appears in various anthologies and on websites including The Willowherb Review, The Hopper and caughtbytheriver. He is a recipient of the inaugural London Writers' Awards 2018 and he won Gold in the Creative Future Writers' Awards 2019. In 2022, he won first prize in Writing Magazine's Grand Flash competition and was joint runner-up in the Evening Standard Short Story Competition. In 2023, his story 'I'll Never Be Young Again' won first prize in the Fowey Festival of Arts and Literature short story competition. He was also Highly Commended in the Emerging Writer Award from The Bridge Award.
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