Fiction
‘A ripe and excellent debut… funny and smart and human and true.’ — Andrew O’Hagan
‘Amber Medland writes in a voice wholly her own—part meow and part growl—nervy, laceratingly funny, and profoundly knowing.’ — Elissa Schappell
‘A wickedly funny and emotionally complex novel.’ — Jenny Offill
‘Like Sally Rooney and Zadie Smith, Amber Medland has written a daring, complex page-turner about being young and in love. But Wild Pets also feels wholly new and original.’ — Rebecca Godfrey
‘Smart and funny… an instant set text of the emerging canon of millennial fiction.’ — The Guardian
‘An impressive, cumulatively powerful first outing.’ — Daily Mail
‘Enveloping comedy of millennial manners.’ — New Statesman
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 drink and drugs. Confronting adulthood with high wit and low behaviour against contemporary political and social turmoil, these young men and women seem to have everything going for them. So why are they still swimming desperately against the tide?
A bold, honest novel, Wild Pets is about the fragility of mental health, power imbalances in friendship and sex, and creative ambition fused with destruction – and the lingering power of first loves.
Short Stories
Mr Blythe Esq. originally published in The Drift, has just been published in Magic and Mechanics (Scratch Books) alongside stories by George Saunders and Claire-Louise Bennett.
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