The Ceaseless Chatter of Demons

Ashok Ferrey's wickedly witty debut follows Sonny Mahadewala, a man living between two worlds—eccentric England and his family's ancestral mansion in Kandy, Sri Lanka—haunted by his mother's conviction that demons possess her "ugly" son. Through clever interplay of the supernatural and the deeply personal, the novel explores the darker impulses within us all, blurring the line between good and evil. From the draughty chapels of Oxford to the Kandyan countryside, Ferrey establishes himself as one of the subcontinent's sharpest literary voices.