One City. One Job. One Year That Changes Everything.
A debut novel about a 22-year-old navigating her first job in Gurugram — where fitting in is harder than she imagined, and growing up is the only option left.
Author, Software Professional & Storyteller
Sweta was born and brought up in Delhi — a city whose metro rides, crowded offices, and relentless pace found their way into the heart of her debut novel.
A veteran of the software industry with twenty years of experience, she has always been a passionate reader of fiction. Outside of work and writing, she finds joy in dancing, eating out, and long, meandering conversations. She moved to Bengaluru in 2018.
One Year is her first book — born from the quiet observations of a life fully lived. She hopes it finds its way to every young person who has ever felt completely unprepared for the world they walked into.
One Year follows a twenty-two-year-old woman living in Delhi and commuting daily to Gurugram, beginning from February 2019. It traces one defining year of her life as she steps into her first job — and immediately discovers how little she was prepared for it.
She struggles to fit in, frequently turns to the internet for guidance, and works relentlessly to solve problems that no classroom ever named. Beneath the everyday chaos of deadlines and office politics, she is quietly, stubbornly trying to create a positive impact in the world around her.
Over the course of twelve months, she makes new friends, collects new experiences, and learns — sometimes painfully — that growing up is not a single moment but a slow, unglamorous accumulation of ordinary days.
A warm, honest, and deeply relatable debut novel — for anyone who has ever felt like the city was moving faster than they were, and kept going anyway.
The city teaches you in a year what classrooms take a decade to deliver.
Fitting in is overrated. Finding yourself is the real work.
Every struggle you survive quietly becomes the strength you didn't know you had.
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