Despite its whimsical premise, Hard Copy is at its heart a joyful, tender, and strangely relatable novel. With sharp, playful prose Veldman tells a story in equal parts searing intelligence and madcap sweetness. Simply brilliant.

Jenny Mustard, author of Okay Days

This novel has it all. It's smart, captivating, poignant, absurd, moving, and terribly funny.

Jente Posthuma, author of What I'd Rather Not Think About

Intimate and surprising at every turn, Hard Copy's distinct narrative voice took me right in from page one. A truly one-of-a-kind novel: I loved it.

Sarah Maria Griffin, author of Other Words for Smoke

Rounded with sharp observations and surprising humour, Hard Copy is an incisive commentary on social isolation – a young woman's desperate search for connection in these late-capitalist times.

Anindita Ghose, author of The Illuminated

'Many astute observations about loneliness [and] class attitudes... very funny on the tedium of office life.'

Irish Independent

Hard Copy is a wonderfully entertaining novel about the struggle to build relationships when one's formative years have already warped their foundation. In a world where machines steadily replace human labour, Veldman explores the search for connections that may not exist and a new, hopefully better reality... bizarre yet poignant'

Daily Dispatch