Published November 13, 2026 · Paperback

I Do, in Other Words

Migration, Medicine, Money, Mistakes & Meaning

He thought intelligence, hard work and optimism could solve almost anything. Life had other ideas.

Born in India, raised in Britain and educated at Oxford, Sonny Saggar arrived in St. Louis with two suitcases, a stack of books, and an almost comic faith that intelligence, energy and optimism would be enough.

For a while, they were. He built a life in medicine and business, met Jayne in a bookshop, married four days after 9/11, and became a father. Then the plan broke apart. There would be divorce, financial upheaval, prosecution, prison, and the long, strange work of starting again.

Told with wit, candor and unusual warmth, I Do, in Other Words is the story of a man who believed ingenuity and effort could solve almost anything, then discovered the limits of that belief without surrendering humour, affection or hope.

Spanning India, Britain and America, this is a deeply human memoir about ambition, family, identity, punishment, meaning and comeback.