A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK of FEBRUARY by LA Times, Bustle, The Millions, Alta Journal and more!

"The thing I was prepared to like least about Amelia Morris's funny and engrossing debut novel--new motherhood and all the requisite growing pains--ultimately became the thing I admired about it most... Wildcat was a book I couldn't set down for long." --The New York Times

"Like Dana Spiotta's Wayward but funnier, the novel is also a hard look at the role of social media in women's lives... A smart, juicy, of-the-moment read." --Kirkus, starred review

"In this sly and funny commentary on the institution of motherhood, Morris... delivers a compulsively readable product. With short chapters and buttery-smooth prose, it's also an exploration of the ebbs and flows of female friendship and how people can betray each other in microscopic ways..." --Booklist, starred review

"These zany episodes yield great drama." --Publishers Weekly

"An excellent book. Fast-paced, funny, and satisfying."
--Emily Oster, bestselling author of Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong--and What You Really Need to Know

"A witty, wise examination of friendship, class and family, and a hilarious, pitch perfect send-up of L.A'.s bougie-bohemian class" --People, Book of the Week Pick

"Amelia Morris writes into reality--the beautiful and the ugly, the way we inevitably measure ourselves against one another. Vibrant and fast-moving, Wildcat is on its surface a compelling read, but it also has bite. The novel is dark and eviscerating on class and entitlement while Morris is funny and sharp on the page. Her movement into fiction is a true reward to readers."
--Megan Mayhew Bergman, author of Birds of a Lesser Paradise

"Wildcat is a sharp, funny, richly wrought take on trying to be both mother and whatever else one sets out to be. Immensely readable and deeply felt, Morris takes readers through the particularly wild and prickly world of a certain type of female friendship in all its complicated, shameful, and sometimes deeply satisfying forms."
--Lynn Steger Strong, author of Want

"Wildcat is that rare novel I'm always in the mood to read: at once laugh-at-loud funny and deeply serious, page-turning and smart. Amelia Morris tackles contemporary motherhood--with its social media-induced peer pressure, its confusing isolation, its complicated beauty--with the sharpest wit and a tenderness that takes my breath away. I loved this book. I want to press it into the hands of...everyone."
--Edan Lepucki, bestselling author of Woman No. 17 and California

"Wildcat is a delightful, searingly accurate novel about the insecurity of new motherhood meeting the seduction of toxic friendships. In writing that manages to be tender, precise, and funny, Morris tells the story of a woman in a state of becoming, caught between what's natural and what's wild. And with witty sendups of a certain kind of L.A. style and the absurdity of influencer culture, Wildcat reminded me what juicy fun disappearing into a good book can be."
--Aja Gabel, author of The Ensemble

"Wildcat is a sharp, tight debut, marking Morris as a writer to watch." --Wilmington Star News