Wild Pets'A wickedly funny and emotionally complex novel.' Jenny Offill, author of Weather and Dept. of Speculation 'A ripe and excellent debut funny and smart and human and true.' Andrew O'Hagan, author of Mayflies Wild Pets follows Iris, Ezra and Nance in the years after university. They fall in and out of bed with each other, reread The Art of War, grieve the closing of Fabric and write book proposals on the history of salt, while submerging their nights in

devastating in its consequences

with a full chorus of street urchins

a grocer's moonlight indiscretion and the passionate illusions of his mistress

Within days the axe could fall on the neck of Mary Queen of Scots

But other peoples recollections are dangerous weapons to play with

Not every story is black and white

When Matty is eventually sent down for multiple murder

a gated community of exclusive houses

Somewhere in the Sahara

Lev comes face to face with the dark

But being a bareback

Then: Madeleine lived for her children