(Un)arranged Marriage is the story of Manjit (nicknamed Manny), a teenage boy living in Leicester, England.

Manny and his friend, Adrian, devise a plan to trick his parents into thinking that he has changed his mind about the arranged marriage.

They break up the wedding party in order to allow Manny to escape the marriage and be free from his parents, but he loses his family in the process.

[1] The novel received generally positive reviews, with The Guardian's Kit Spring calling it an "absorbing and engaging first novel" and "highly readable".

[2] Books for Keeps magazine praised Rai for his "vitality and freshness", as well as his "ear for dialogue", but criticized his "lack of characterisation and convincing plotting".