The Girl from Jakarta

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Pub Date 20 Sep 2020 | Archive Date 30 Jul 2021

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Description

17 year old Cindy is half English and half Indonesian. She has a great talent for playing football, which takes her from the rural poverty of Yogyakarta to the bright lights of London. After fighting racism and sexism, she becomes the first female to play in the Men’s English Premier League. After a series of bad relationships she finds love with an American man. Then comes the chance of a shot at World Cup glory in 2026.


17 year old Cindy is half English and half Indonesian. She has a great talent for playing football, which takes her from the rural poverty of Yogyakarta to the bright lights of London. After fighting...


A Note From the Publisher

A 'coming of age' story as well as 'rags to riches'

A 'coming of age' story as well as 'rags to riches'


Advance Praise

"The last sentence is visually great."


"The last sentence is visually great."



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ISBN 9798690835606
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Featured Reviews

There are a few things that I really liked about the book and that show great promise:

-the use of a mixed race heroine who plays football in a mens football team

-I loved the mix of cultures that the book presents as we don't see this often, I definitely have students that would really gel with this representation.

-I like that the book presents the ignorance of the British people Jakarta/Yogyakarta in hope that readers won't make this ignorant mistake.
- I like that there are hints of what a toxic relationship looks like for young people and how they can avoid it [though this could be voiced more directly].
-There are flashes of sophisticated prose

I couldn't find much about the author online, they don't seem to have too much of a presence online and I would like to know the author better. Perhaps this is because the author is young and it's for safeguarding reasons.

I'd like to see the book edited a little more, a few spelling errors but that's the role of the editor/publisher not the author. I get the impression this is a first attempt at publishing a novel for the author, there is a lot of promise for further stories and narratives. It's great to think that young people are out there drafting and publishing stories and novels!

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