Bend It Like Beckham

Know about the book -

Bend It Like Beckham is written by Narinder Dhami and published by Hodder Children's Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1444909851 (ISBN 10) and 9781444909852 (ISBN 13).

Read the novel of the global smash hit noughties film - coming to Netflix on 15th August! If you're 18, love football and can bend a ball like Beckham, the world must be your oyster, right? Wrong. If you're Jesminder - 18, Indian and a girl - forget it. Jess just wants to play football but her wedding-obsessed parents have other ideas so she hides it from them. But when Jess and her friend Jules join a women's team and get spotted by a talent scout, it all kicks off ... The Bend it Like Beckham movie was a box-office hit, starring Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Bend it Like Beckham was also transformed into a musical in London's West End. Director Gurinder Chadha recently announced that a sequel is in the works for the film's 25th anniversary - bring on Bend it Like Beckham 2!