People We Love: Stories of Love, Longing and the Lives We Almost Lived | New book from one of India's highest-selling authors, Preeti Shenoy
Preeti Shenoy's latest collection draws readers back into the lives of characters who haunted her previous bestsellers, peeling back the layers to show who they were before their stories intersected with ours. Here, she captures those quiet, aching moments where hearts collide with circumstance. Aniket, trapped in code and yearning, watches from the sidelines as Trisha drifts past. Nidhi trades her corner office for a pottery wheel, learning that strangers' clay responds more kindly than those closest to her do. A trivia night throws Aman and Shruti together in a connection neither expected, yet one that fights against the world's resistance. Then there's Anjali, a journalist so fixated on everyone else's narratives that her own almost slips by unnoticed. Woven through the backdrop of modern India, these stories wrestle with timeless tensions: ambition versus affection, societal expectation versus personal longing, the masks we wear against our truest selves. What emerges is neither neat nor simple. Love appears in unexpected guises, sometimes staying, sometimes departing, sometimes leaving just enough of a mark to remake who we are. Touching and occasionally brutal, this collection speaks to anyone who's wondered about the person they might have become if they'd chosen differently.
- Author: Preeti Shenoy
- Publisher: Harper Fiction India
- Genre: Short Stories
- ISBN: 978-9373074856
- Pages: 288 pages