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'What links Sonal Kohli's beautiful, perspicacious stories is an aspirational India informed by historical and economic change .... she has a way of absorbing the reader in her world, and also revealing very delicately how that world is surprising, unexpected, and in flux' - Amit Chaudhuri

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'In quietly ambitious prose, Sonal Kohli charts the turbulent three decades of a 'rising' India. The House Next to the Factory is one of the very rare fictions to examine the immense human costs - profound emotional and psychological disorientations - that the Indian bourgeoisie has paid for its material success' - Pankaj Mishra

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'Sonal Kohli's stories of a modern India continually feeling the reverberations of its own turbulent history are finely observed and richly atmospheric. ' Carys Davies

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'Kohli layers story on top of story with finesse and grace. An abiding collection from a highly skilled observer of lives and places' Ruby Cowling

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'Thoughtful, delicate and wide-ranging, The House Next to the Factory is a testament to the often-overlooked power of the ordinary' - Madhuri Vijay

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