Fifteen Lanes

Fifteen Lanes
Author: S. J. Laidlaw
Publisher: Tundra Books (NY)
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2016
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1101917806

Set in the fifteen lanes that comprise Mumbai's red light district Fifteen Lanes compellingly explores class, race and gender through the alternating voices of two teenage protagonists. Noor lives in a Mumbai brothel with her mother and siblings and is immensely grateful for the chance to go to school, hoping it will help her escape being sold into the sex trade. Grace is the Canadian daughter of the CEO of one of Mumbai's largest banks. When the two eventually meet at a NGO support centre for women and children, their lives and perspectives are irrevocably changed.

An Infidel in Paradise

An Infidel in Paradise
Author: S.J. Laidlaw
Publisher: Tundra Books
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2013-02-12
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1770493050

Set in Pakistan, this is the story of a teen girl living with her mother and siblings in a diplomatic compound. As if getting used to another new country and set of customs and friends isn't enough, she must cope with an increasingly tense political situation that becomes dangerous with alarming speed. Her life and those of her sister and brother depend on her resourcefulness and the unexpected help of an enigmatic Muslim classmate.

The Voice inside My Head

The Voice inside My Head
Author: S.J. Laidlaw
Publisher: Tundra Books
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2014-03-11
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1770495657

Seventeen-year-old Luke's older sister, Pat, has always been his moral compass, like a voice inside his head, every time he has a decision to make. So when Pat disappears on a tiny island off the coast of Honduras and the authorities claim she's drowned - despite the fact that they can't produce a body - Luke heads to Honduras to find her because he knows something the authorities don't. From the moment of her disappearance, Pat's voice has become real, guiding him to Utila, where she had accepted a summer internship to study whale sharks. Once there, he meets several characters who describe his sister as a very different girl from the one knows. Does someone have a motive for wanting her dead? Determined to get to the bottom of Pat's disappearance, Luke risks everything, including his own life, to find the answer.