One Small Voice

Epic in scope and yet composed of intimate moments ... One Small Voice will be one of the best debuts this year

Epic in scope and yet composed of intimate moments ... One Small Voice will be one of the best debuts this year

[A] diverse, original take on contemporary India ... [A] hugely engaging novel written with verve, intelligence and compassion

[A] beautiful coming-of-age novel

An intoxicating portrait of modern India, riven with internal political and cultural tensions, caught precariously between its colonial past and its ruthlessly modernising future ... Terrific

Epic ... Guided by an intimate trajectory... Bhattacharya is a vivid and humane storyteller with a talent for encapsulating the social in the personal

A joy to read, a full universe of feeling, an effortless page-turner by a born storyteller

Devastating and intimate , and political and radical all at the same time. Bhattacharya's storytelling talents are limitless

A compassionate, many-layered chronicle of trauma and recovery following mob violence in contemporary India, One Small Voice is a wonderful, timely contribution to world literature

Exceptional ... Bhattacharya gives us India in all its messy glory ... Heartbreaking and yet so full of hope

Bhattacharya has the enviable ability of creating a cast of characters that feel as real as any person I've met . His effortless writing sings on the page

Santanu Bhattacharya is the author of two novels, One Small Voice and Deviants, and several works of short fiction. One Small Voice was an Observer Best Debut Novel for 2023, and was shortlisted for the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award and the Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize. Deviants won the Rainbow Award and BLF-Atta Galata Prize 2025, and was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize. Santanu is the recipient of the Desmond Elliott Prize Residency, the Mo Siewcharran Prize, the Life Writing Prize, and a London Writers’ Award. He grew up in India, and now lives in London.