The Wildings is a beautiful book in every way. Beautifully written, beautifully illustrated, and beautifully designed.
The Hindu
A superlative achievement that cuts across genres and far exceeds its own hype.
The Sunday Guardian
[The Wildings] is a novel for all seasons and all ages.
India Today
The Wildings is, before anything else, a terrific adventure with a fine cast of characters.
Tehelka
The Wildings is a page-turner and a charming read.
DNA
Gripping, humorous and truly immersive, it is well worth a sequel.
The Sunday Indian
The Wildings is the creation of a fully formed imaginative world that carries great allegorical resonance.
Open Magazine
Roy has given us a hair-raising read that wears its print proudly: an entrancing fable in the tradition of The Rats of N.I.M.H. and Watership Down.
Mumbai Boss
With The Wildings, Nilanjana Roy [has] move[d] up yet another notch, embracing that final frontier—that of a writer in the finest imaginative tradition. ... The Wildings is an excellent and assured first novel.
Outlook
[W]ith its visceral descriptions and complete characters [The Wildings] can … send the reader’s imagination racing.
The Financial Express
There are powerful themes to engage the reader and epic wars between feline clans that are allegories of the power of good over evil, of friendship and loss and revenge. … The Wildings is an epic tale of cats.
Deccan Chronicle
About the Author
Nilanjana Roy lives in Delhi with two cats and her husband. She spent most of her adult life writing about humans before realizing that animals were much more fun; The Wildings is her first novel. Her column on books and reading for the Business Standard has run for over 15 years; she also writes for the International Herald Tribune on gender. Her fiction and journalism have appeared in several journals and anthologies, including Caravan, Civil Lines 6, Guernica, the New York Times’ India blog, Outlook and Biblio. Some of her stories for children have been published in Scholastic’s Spooky Stories, & Science Fiction Stories and BeWitched. She is the editor of A Matter of Taste: The Penguin Book of Indian Food Writing. At one time, she used to blog as Hurree Babu at Kitabkhana, India’s first litblog.
