'Lonely People Meet is a gorgeous, mind-bending, speculative thriller about love, identity, and the price of connection in a world where everything and everyone can be manipulated by Big Tech. I read it with fascination and absolute admiration. This is a profound and unforgettable debut that blurs the line between human and machine, memory and program, forcing us to question what it truly means to connect in an age of artificial intimacy'

MEENA KANDASAMY

'Gently humane but probing, this novel is eloquent on what draws us together as well as what we inevitably cast aside, whether it's relationships, inheritances, or the paper a gift is wrapped in'

AMIT CHAUDHURI

A truly unusual love story, tender and troubling at once, set in a world slipping from recognition

PRAYAAG AKBAR