What Wild Women Do: A Novel

AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of Recipe for a Perfect Wife comes a must-read book of the season.

A 1970s feminist facing the costs of loss and autonomy strives to create a better future for women at her Adirondack camp; meanwhile, an aspiring screenwriter makes a shocking discovery in the present that sets her on a course of rewriting her own story.

Rowan is stuck. Her dreams of becoming a screenwriter are stalled, along with her bank account, as she and her fiancé Seth try to make sense of what’s next for them after leaving LA. But when the couple takes a trip to a cabin in the Adirondacks, hoping the change will provide inspiration for Seth’s novel-in-progress, Rowan finds herself drawn into a story greater than her own—that of socialite-turned-feminist-crusader Eddie Calloway, who vanished one day in 1975 and was never found or heard from again. In a handbook left behind in the abandoned ruins of a once great camp, Rowan starts to discover clues to what happened to Eddie.

As Rowan delves deeper into the mystery, we meet Eddie herself, a fierce and loving woman whose greatest wish was to host women at her camp and unlock their “wildness.” However, Eddie’s wild ways aren’t welcomed by everyone, and rifts between camp owners threaten her mission. When Rowan gets closer to the truth of Eddie’s disappearance, she realizes that it may hold the key to unlocking her own ambition and future.

KARMA BROWN is the author of five novels: the #1 national bestseller Recipe for a Perfect Wife; Come Away with Me (a Globe and Mail Best Book of 2015); the Globe and Mail and Toronto Star bestsellers The Choices We Make and In This Moment; and The Life Lucy Knew. She is also the author of bestseller The 4% Fix: How One Hour Can Change Your Life. An award-winning journalist, Karma has been published in SELF, Redbook, and Today's Parent, among others. She lives just outside Toronto with her husband, daughter, and a Labradoodle named Fred.

ISBN: 9780735236264
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Publisher: Penguin Canada
Published: October 24, 2023

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

One of CBC's 30 Canadian Books to Read in Winter 2024

"Karma Brown keeps delivering knockout after knockout. She is an auto-buy author for me!”

—Taylor Jenkins Reid

"What Wild Women Do is a total joy to read—it’s mysterious, atmospheric and pacey, with heaps of heart and soul. Rowan and Eddie are two women to root for, each on their own soul-searching journey of independence and a reckoning with their past. An uplifting celebration of women, and the courage it takes to find one’s true self."