An arresting, vividly imaginative collection of stories capturing the complexity of intimacy and the depths of the unravelling mind.

Infatuation and violence grow between two girls in the enchanting wilderness of postwar Australia as they spin disturbing fantasies to escape their families. Two young men in the midst of the 1968 French student revolts navigate — and at times resist — the philosophical and emotional nature of love. An orphaned boy and his estranged aunt are thrown together on a quiet peninsula at the height of the Troubles in Ireland, where their deeply rooted fear attracts the attention of shape-shifting phantoms of war.

The five long-form stories in A Song for Wildcats are uncanny portraits of grief and resilience and are imbued with unique beauty, insight, and resonance from one of the country's most exciting authors.

A RARE MACHINES BOOK

Caitlin Galway is a novelist and short fiction writer. Her new story collection, A Song for Wildcats, follows her debut novel Bonavere Howl. Her short story “Heatstroke” will appear in Best Canadian Stories 2025. Her work has won the CBC Books Stranger than Fiction Contest, the Morton Prize, and Riddle Fence's Short Story Contest. She lives in Toronto.