Wild Pets – An enjoyably arch post-campus tale (Paperback)

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After university, Iris, Ezra, and Nance drift through London with intensity and unease. Their lives are crowded with intimacy and argument, ambition and exhaustion. They move between beds and friendships, theory and excess, mourning closed clubs, clinging to ideas, and chasing projects that promise meaning while quietly draining them.

Nights dissolve into drink and drugs, days into half formed plans. They read and reread the same texts, talk endlessly about politics and art, and measure themselves against a world that feels both open and already closing. Power shifts subtly between them, in sex, in loyalty, in who needs whom more. What once felt like freedom begins to resemble stasis.

Wild Pets is a novel about the fragile space between youth and adulthood, where creativity brushes up against self destruction and first loves refuse to loosen their hold. It captures the anxiety of a generation coming of age amid social and political uncertainty, asking why promise can feel so heavy, and why swimming harder does not always mean moving forward.