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Grown-Up Pose

My second novel Grown-Up Pose launched on March 24, 2020! You can add it to Goodreads here.

A delightfully modern look at what happens for a young woman when tradition, dating, and independence collide, from acclaimed author Sonya Lalli.

Adulting shouldn’t be this hard. Especially in your thirties. Having been pressured by her tight-knit community to get married at a young age to her first serious boyfriend, Anu Desai is now on her own again and feels like she is starting from the beginning. 

But Anu doesn’t have time to start over. Telling her parents that she was separating from her husband was the hardest thing she’s ever done—and she’s still dealing with the fallout. She has her young daughter to support and when she invests all of her savings into running her own yoga studio, the feelings of irresponsibility send Anu reeling. She’ll be forced to look inside herself to learn what she truly wants.

Praise for Grown-Up Pose:

The Globe and Mail National Bestseller

Amazon Best Book of the Month

“A poignant coming-of-age story with the added twist that Lalli’s spunky heroine, Anu Desai, is long married and a mother of one. Caught in a tug of war between what is traditional and what is modern, between mothers and mother-in-laws, Anu’s discovery of self-worth as well as value in family, friends and work is a joy to read. From yoga studios to finding oneself in trips abroad to online dating, Lalli gives readers a wonderful novel about love and belonging and meaning of happiness and home.”—Soniah Kamal, award-winning author of Unmarriageable: Pride and Prejudice in Pakistan

“Sparkling — Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

“Anu’s struggle to find herself is wrought with obstacles and sometimes frustrating, but the resolution of her story is both satisfying and realistic. A moving look at one woman’s journey between her family and her desire for independence.”—Kirkus

Buy Grown-Up Pose

  • Amazon: Paperback | Ebook | Audiobook
  • Apple iBooks: Ebook
  • Barnes & Noble: Paperback
  • Indigo: Paperback
  • Kobo: Ebook | Audiobook


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ICYMI my Audible Original #AsLuckWouldHaveIt dropp ICYMI my Audible Original #AsLuckWouldHaveIt dropped earlier this month! This Saskatchewan girl LOVED writing a hockey romance and I hope you love listening to it… it’s performed by the extremely talented @amritkaur !!✨🏒
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Amrit Kaur (The Sex Lives of College Girls) delivers a stellar performance in a brand-new enemies-to-lovers hockey romance by Sonya Lalli.
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Hockey coach Ashley Jaswal doesn’t take nonsense from anyone … except her overbearing and superstitious family. They believe she’s a good luck charm for her brother Jas, the newest Vancouver Canucks draft pick, forcing Ash to attend all his games as he rises up the NHL ranks, sacrificing her personal life (not that she has one—who decided hockey season needed to be 10 months long anyway?).
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Ash also clashes with Jas’s teammate, Canucks captain Devin Snyder. Devin is yet another arrogant hockey bro—and admitted total babe—who is fresh off a scandalous break-up with a global pop-star. But she soon finds the ice melts between them, and they share an unexpected chemistry. As Ash wrestles with her family’s demands, her brother’s career and her feelings for Devin, will she find a way to take a risk and make her own luck? Or will she puck this up?
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