The Wildelings: ‘A deliciously dark psychological mystery’ IRISH TIMES
Autor Lisa Hardingen Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 apr 2026
'A dark and thrilling fable' DOMINIC WEST
'A campus novel with a twist' ROISÍN O'DONNELL
'Gloriously entertaining' OBSERVER
'I adored it' HEATHER DARWENT
'I was hooked from the very start' RACHEL JOYCE
'Deliciously dark' IRISH TIMES
A girl so desperate to belong that she lets herself be remade.
Jessica and Linda have been inseparable since childhood. At Wilde, an elite Dublin university, they arrive determined to remake themselves.
Jessica, her fierce ambition set on the theatre, is used to leading. Linda, more fragile, follows. But when they meet Mark, an older student with a magnetic presence, the balance between them begins to shift.
Linda becomes Mark's girlfriend, then his project. Jessica becomes his actress, her ambition pulling her deeper into his orbit. Under Mark's influence, reshaped by his attention, old loyalties between the girls begin to fracture.
By the end of that year, under the sway of his influence, a line is crossed that leads to devastating consequences.
A compulsive and gripping story about exploitation and control, toxic female friendship, desire and shame, The Wildelings is your next dark academia obsession.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781526672926
ISBN-10: 1526672928
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1526672928
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recenzii
A spectacular tour de force
A deliciously dark psychological mystery
Harding's style of writing is direct and intense, giving her novel a raw and emotional tone. It's a compelling read, one which will be hard to forget
With pitch-pure dialogue, and a plot that weaves in and around the theatre until the edges of reality blur, Lisa Harding presents us with a psychologically gripping story about personal manipulation and the imbalance of power in intimate relationships. A powerful performance
Set against the backdrop of a beautifully reimagined Dublin of the Nineties, The Wildelings is a campus novel with a twist; a blisteringly real story of control and vulnerability, desire and ambition. A propulsive read
The Wildelings is a shiver-inducing delight. I found myself reading when I should have been doing a million other things, unable to tear myself away from these bewitching characters, Harding's beautiful prose, and the prickly suspicion that a dark surprise was waiting for me on every page
Propulsive, with echoes of Donna Tartt's The Secret History ... This is dark academia at its most gripping
The Wildelings is a darkly lyrical and compelling novel about power, obsession, and the fragility of intimacy. A thrilling excavation of the blurred lines between friendship and the more dangerous shadows of youth. Harding crafts a masterful study of vulnerability, control, and the uneasy art of self-reinvention.
Dark, blistering and full of theatrics, The Wildelings is an electric exploration of control, guilt, and one young woman's fight to free herself. I was hooked from the very start
Fans of dark academia or Donna Tartt's The Secret History, this one's for you
Full of brooding menace ... A dark and riveting novel
A vicious, sardonic, cruel book...very dramatic ... I lapped it up
Harding gives Jessica a self-excoriating, incisive, bitter, and evocative first-person voice. The Wildelings' inexorable plot is like the proverbial train wreck: shocking, electric, impossible to turn from. Its psychological tumult verges on horror. With this atmospheric roller coaster of a novel, Harding offers pulsing intensity, gut-wrenching emotional upheaval, and high drama in every sense
A story of obsession, control and guilt, set in 1990s Dublin ... Perfect for fans of dark academia and Donna Tartt's The Secret History
The Wildelings arrives to fill the Secret History-shaped hole in your lives ... Gothic and gloriously entertaining
A searing exploration into our deepest desires and insecurities. I adored it
I was gripped by this dark and thrilling fable - Harding is the new Donna Tartt
Lisa Harding's The Wildelings, in the tradition of dark academia, shocks with the cruelties of belonging, the seductive power wielded in friendships, the impulse to control and subjugate. Impeccably paced, dark and disturbingly honest, The Wildelings reveals campus life as theatre of cruelty; but the real stagecraft lies in Harding's ability to excavate the still beating heart of a shared past and bonds beneath those brutalities. Riveting, addictive and, ultimately, beautifully human
Obsession, possessiveness, coercion, malice, spite, insecurity, frailty, vulnerability; lurking unease and the wax and wane of tenuous friendship. There's a bundle of narrative thread to unravel here and Harding does it in a manner as unsettling as it is addictive
The Wildelings is, above all, a rich character study. Every relationship was created with so much care, and I found the novel enthralling, a haunting exploration of friendships and relationships gone sour
Praise for Lisa Harding: 'Absolutely dazzling
On every page there are little shimmering bombs
Quietly devastating ... Reminded me repeatedly of Shuggie Bain
Stark and terrifying, fast-paced and intensely lucid
A heady mixture of heartbreak and hope
A pungently propulsive heart-wrencher ... An alarming yet tender portrayal of the slow-burn impact of long-repressed grief
A novel of extraordinary intimacy and vividness, a uniquely disquieting account of a mind sinking into the depths and rising again, full of such powerful love and fear
A tense, unflinching, immersive mapping of a pitted track of addiction and recovery ... I lived every scene as I read, and I know that these characters will be with me for a long time
[Harding's] writing is taut, and there is such an intensity, an urgency about the narrative that you find yourself turning the pages as if you fear Sonya might race out of sight ... A contemporary, zeitgeisty read and very satisfying
Mesmerising, beautifully realised ... Glorious mix of barely-held-together sanity and unbridled honesty
Delves into territories which are as devastating as they are illuminating
Well-crafted . It's a wild ride, culminating in a scene that combines hope, fear and beauty
Startling, urgent and intimate ... A meticulous portrait of a life unravelling, and of the painstaking, heartbreaking work to put it all back together
Tender and electric ... Interrogates the raw edges of love and addiction with an honesty that made me ache. It captures the fragility of our fractured minds and illuminates our power to break legacies of hurt
Lisa Harding is a vivid and original stylist and a gifted storyteller. This is a fabulous novel
A shattering portrait of the divided self. Bright Burning Things walks the razor's edge between addiction and recovery in prose that is searing, sensual and merciful
Unputdownable: infuriating, nerve-wracking and hugely enjoyable
A gripping, atmospheric and deeply truthful novel from a writer whose work I love
A gritty, uncomfortable and profoundly moving read, Bright Burning Things captures all the manic sadness and fallout from the past, of how we try to cool fires that rage ... I couldn't put it down
A deliciously dark psychological mystery
Harding's style of writing is direct and intense, giving her novel a raw and emotional tone. It's a compelling read, one which will be hard to forget
With pitch-pure dialogue, and a plot that weaves in and around the theatre until the edges of reality blur, Lisa Harding presents us with a psychologically gripping story about personal manipulation and the imbalance of power in intimate relationships. A powerful performance
Set against the backdrop of a beautifully reimagined Dublin of the Nineties, The Wildelings is a campus novel with a twist; a blisteringly real story of control and vulnerability, desire and ambition. A propulsive read
The Wildelings is a shiver-inducing delight. I found myself reading when I should have been doing a million other things, unable to tear myself away from these bewitching characters, Harding's beautiful prose, and the prickly suspicion that a dark surprise was waiting for me on every page
Propulsive, with echoes of Donna Tartt's The Secret History ... This is dark academia at its most gripping
The Wildelings is a darkly lyrical and compelling novel about power, obsession, and the fragility of intimacy. A thrilling excavation of the blurred lines between friendship and the more dangerous shadows of youth. Harding crafts a masterful study of vulnerability, control, and the uneasy art of self-reinvention.
Dark, blistering and full of theatrics, The Wildelings is an electric exploration of control, guilt, and one young woman's fight to free herself. I was hooked from the very start
Fans of dark academia or Donna Tartt's The Secret History, this one's for you
Full of brooding menace ... A dark and riveting novel
A vicious, sardonic, cruel book...very dramatic ... I lapped it up
Harding gives Jessica a self-excoriating, incisive, bitter, and evocative first-person voice. The Wildelings' inexorable plot is like the proverbial train wreck: shocking, electric, impossible to turn from. Its psychological tumult verges on horror. With this atmospheric roller coaster of a novel, Harding offers pulsing intensity, gut-wrenching emotional upheaval, and high drama in every sense
A story of obsession, control and guilt, set in 1990s Dublin ... Perfect for fans of dark academia and Donna Tartt's The Secret History
The Wildelings arrives to fill the Secret History-shaped hole in your lives ... Gothic and gloriously entertaining
A searing exploration into our deepest desires and insecurities. I adored it
I was gripped by this dark and thrilling fable - Harding is the new Donna Tartt
Lisa Harding's The Wildelings, in the tradition of dark academia, shocks with the cruelties of belonging, the seductive power wielded in friendships, the impulse to control and subjugate. Impeccably paced, dark and disturbingly honest, The Wildelings reveals campus life as theatre of cruelty; but the real stagecraft lies in Harding's ability to excavate the still beating heart of a shared past and bonds beneath those brutalities. Riveting, addictive and, ultimately, beautifully human
Obsession, possessiveness, coercion, malice, spite, insecurity, frailty, vulnerability; lurking unease and the wax and wane of tenuous friendship. There's a bundle of narrative thread to unravel here and Harding does it in a manner as unsettling as it is addictive
The Wildelings is, above all, a rich character study. Every relationship was created with so much care, and I found the novel enthralling, a haunting exploration of friendships and relationships gone sour
Praise for Lisa Harding: 'Absolutely dazzling
On every page there are little shimmering bombs
Quietly devastating ... Reminded me repeatedly of Shuggie Bain
Stark and terrifying, fast-paced and intensely lucid
A heady mixture of heartbreak and hope
A pungently propulsive heart-wrencher ... An alarming yet tender portrayal of the slow-burn impact of long-repressed grief
A novel of extraordinary intimacy and vividness, a uniquely disquieting account of a mind sinking into the depths and rising again, full of such powerful love and fear
A tense, unflinching, immersive mapping of a pitted track of addiction and recovery ... I lived every scene as I read, and I know that these characters will be with me for a long time
[Harding's] writing is taut, and there is such an intensity, an urgency about the narrative that you find yourself turning the pages as if you fear Sonya might race out of sight ... A contemporary, zeitgeisty read and very satisfying
Mesmerising, beautifully realised ... Glorious mix of barely-held-together sanity and unbridled honesty
Delves into territories which are as devastating as they are illuminating
Well-crafted . It's a wild ride, culminating in a scene that combines hope, fear and beauty
Startling, urgent and intimate ... A meticulous portrait of a life unravelling, and of the painstaking, heartbreaking work to put it all back together
Tender and electric ... Interrogates the raw edges of love and addiction with an honesty that made me ache. It captures the fragility of our fractured minds and illuminates our power to break legacies of hurt
Lisa Harding is a vivid and original stylist and a gifted storyteller. This is a fabulous novel
A shattering portrait of the divided self. Bright Burning Things walks the razor's edge between addiction and recovery in prose that is searing, sensual and merciful
Unputdownable: infuriating, nerve-wracking and hugely enjoyable
A gripping, atmospheric and deeply truthful novel from a writer whose work I love
A gritty, uncomfortable and profoundly moving read, Bright Burning Things captures all the manic sadness and fallout from the past, of how we try to cool fires that rage ... I couldn't put it down