A teen novel based on the script and film, of the same name, which is due for release on 19th April 2002 and stars Shaznay Lewis (of All Saints fame) and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Jess is 18 and a brilliant footballer, the only trouble is that she is Indian and a girl whose parents are obsessed with marriage, so when she gets spotted and asked to join a teams the trouble really kicks off.

Narinder Dhami is the author of popular fiction series The Beautiful Game, about a girls' football team, many books in the hugely successful Rainbow Magic series and the bestselling novelisation of the film Bend it Like Beckham. She was a primary teacher before she began writing full time. She lives with her husband in Shropshire.