Wildcat

A Novel

By: Amelia Morris

Narrated by: Chloe Dolandis

Amelia Morris's Wildcat is an uproariously funny, surprisingly touching story of one woman’s journey through motherhood and female friendship, in a society that plays fast and loose with information.

New mother, aspiring writer, and former shopgirl Leanne has lost her way. As she struggles with both her grief and the haze of motherhood, it also becomes clear that her best friend, the default queen of East Side Los Angeles, Regina Mark, might not actually be a friend at all.

As Leanne begins to investigate and undermine Regina, she also strikes up an unexpected friendship with the lauded writer Maxine Hunter. Feeling frustrated and invisible next to Regina’s wealth and social standing, Leanne seeks security wherever she can find it, whether that’s by researching whether she should vaccinate her son, in listening to the messages she thinks her father is sending from beyond the grave, or in holding her own against a petulant student in her creative writing class. Most of all, however, she looks for it within Maxine, who offers Leanne something new.

With a keen eye for the trappings of privilege, class, and the performative nature of contemporary domestic life, Morris’s tender and wicked debut shows us a woman who bucks against the narrative she’s been fed, only to find power in herself and the truth that emerges.

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books

©2022 Amelia Morris (P)2022 Macmillan Audio

Great story about motherhood and friendship

This book explores modern motherhood from a unique perspective and I would recommend this book to everyone. And by everyone I mean male, female, old, young, parent, parent-to-be... well, may not be for children but for any other curious individual. As a male audience, I learned a lot from this book about motherhood or even just being female to say the least, and the narrator did a fantastic job to keep the book interesting and carried me through a type of book that I don't normally read or listen to. The New York Times already did a fantastic book review, so let me spare you the details and just say that this book is such an underrated gem.

The vocal fry is so distracting and horrifying I had to stop listening

I was very interested in this book. But the vocal performance is so vocal fry heavy that I could not bare to continue. The end of each sentence was actually painful to listen to. I just so wish there would be a selection of actors who are vocally trained with open voices versus valley voices. It’s so disappointing. I do not have time to read paper books, so now I won’t be able to read this one.