The Falconer

An iBooks Book of the Year 2019, ''Our favourite debut ... a glorious, empowering, coming of age NY story.''‘An electric debut’ New York Times ‘Exhilarating’ Claire Messud ‘Deeply affecting’ Salma ...

An iBooks Book of the Year 2019, ''Our favourite debut ... a glorious, empowering, coming of age NY story.''‘An electric debut’ New York Times ‘Exhilarating’ Claire Messud ‘Deeply affecting’ Salman RushdieSeventeen-year-old Lucy Adler, a street-smart, trash-talking baller, is often the only girl on the public courts. Lucy’s inner life is a contradiction. She’s by turns quixotic and cynical, insecure and self-possessed and, despite herself, is in unrequited love with her best friend and pick-up teammate Percy, son of a prominent New York family who is trying to resist his upper crust fate.As Lu