The Marriage Clock: A Novel

by Zara Raheem

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Named one of Pop Sugar's Best Books to Put in your Beachbag this summer and one of the best books of July.

A Booktrib "Romance to get you in the swing for Wedding Season" of 2019

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To Leila Abid’s traditional Indian parents, finding a husband is as easy as match, meet, marry. Yes, she wants to marry, but after 26 years of singledom, even Leila is starting to get nervous. And to make matters worse, her parents are panicking, the neighbors are talking, and she’s wondering, are her expectations just too high?

But for Leila, a marriage of arrangement clashes with her lifelong dreams of a Bollywood romance, where real love happens before marriage, not the other way around. So she decides it’s time to stop dreaming and start dating.

It’s an impossible mission of satisfying her parents’ expectations, while also fulfilling her own western ideals of love. But after a series of speed dates, blind dates, online dates and even ambush dates, the sparks just don’t fly! Now, with the marriage clock ticking, and her 3-month deadline looming in the horizon, Leila must face the consequences of what might happen if she doesn’t find “the one…”

  • ISBN10 0062877925
  • ISBN13 9780062877925
  • Publish Date 5 September 2019 (first published 23 July 2019)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 2 April 2024
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
  • Imprint William Morrow Paperbacks
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 368
  • Language English