Sonya Singh is a Toronto-based author who previously worked as an entertainment reporter and a communications professional. Singh’s debut novel, Sari, Not Sari became an instant best seller in North America. It will be published in the UK under the title The Breakup Expert.
Fiction
The Fake Matchmaker: A Novel
Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2026.
forthcoming March 2026
Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)
While her brothers are finding their soulmates and planning the rest of their lives, Manisha Patel is moving back in with her parents, dodging calls from her cheating Aquarius ex-boyfriend, and avoiding questions about her love life. Worse, she’s being forced to help out her father’s friend’s son, and Manisha would rather be doing anything else. Rohit Khanna may be incredibly hot and have great style, but he’s also arrogant, rude, and (allegedly) a cheater, and Manisha wants nothing to do with him.
But these things turn out to be the least of Manisha’s worries when she gets the heartbreaking news that her dream of one day having a family might slip through her fingers. Then, a stroke of genius: What if there was a fake matchmaking service where Manisha was the only client? One single profile, countless eligible bachelors for Manisha to choose from. It’s the perfect plan to find a husband and live happily ever after. . . . Isn’t it?
Fiction
Sari, Not Sari
Toronto: Simon and Schuster Canada, 2022.
Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)
Manny Dogra is the beautiful young CEO of Breakup, a highly successful company that helps people manage their relationship breakups. As preoccupied as she is with her business, she’s also planning her wedding to handsome architect Adam Jamieson while dealing with the loss of her beloved parents.
For reasons Manny has never understood, her mother and father, who were both born in India, always wanted her to become an “All-American” girl. So that’s what she did. She knows next to nothing about her South Asian heritage, and that’s never been a problem—until her parents are no longer around, and an image of Manny that’s been Photoshopped to make her skin look more white appears on a major magazine cover. Suddenly, the woman who built an empire encouraging people to be true to themselves is having her own identity crisis.
But when an irritating client named Sammy Patel approaches Manny with an odd breakup request, the perfect solution presents itself: If they both agree to certain terms, he’ll give her a crash course in being “Indian” at his brother’s wedding.
What follows is days of dancing and dal, masala and mehndi as Manny meets the lovable, if endlessly interfering, aunties and uncles of the Patel family, and, along the way, discovers much more than she could ever have anticipated.
Links
Sonya Singh personal website
Publisher Doubleday Canada, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada
Publisher Simon and Schuster Canada