The Wildings: The Hundred Names of Darkness Synopsis
Fresh from their fight with the ferals, the Nizamuddin cat clan begin to find their beloved Delhi neighbourhood is changing around them, and they encounter new enemies - vicious dogs, snakes and humans. Unless Mara, a young ginger kitten, can use her powers as a Sender to help the clan find a safe haven, the small band of cats will be wiped out for good. Led by the plucky Southpaw the cats set out on a perilous journey through India's urban jungle in search of a new home, meeting many new loyal friends, and deadly foes, along the way.
A few pages into Nilanjana Roy's The Wildings, you'll wish you had whiskers and could mew... a pageturner and a charming read DNA India
Could well become a classic in its own time Sunday Guardian
A delight to read -- Salman Rushdie
Author
About Nilanjana Roy
Nilanjana Roy spent most of her adult life writing about humans before realizing that animals were much more fun; The Wildings is her first novel. She writes a regular column for the Business Standard and the International Herald Tribune, and some of her stories for children have been published in Scholastic's Spooky Stories, Science Fiction Stories and Be Witched. She lives in Delhi with two cats and her husband.
