![]() ![]() Peter Brown is a lonely rather privileged little boy – he has a Nanny and two successful, socialite parents who are too busy to give him much love and affection. ![]() Hers was the call of the loneliness of the rejected, the outcast of the granite heart of the unheeding city I’m afraid, despite of course knowing the story well, that I sobbed in all the places I had ever sobbed before – perhaps partly because of memories of the first sobbing, aged somewhere around 9 or 10, but also, because some quite deep themes are being explored – particularly loss, friendship, betrayal of trust, death. And I have occasionally read it again, and it’s similarly cats-eye view orientated successor, Thomasina.Īlthough the protagonist is a little boy, this is by no means childishly written, nor does it just offer whimsicality about cats. I first read Paul Gallico’s delightful (and sobbingly heart-aching) book about a little boy who finds himself changed into a cat, when I was probably at target age 8-11, I think. ![]() ![]() Particularly as another post by a different blogger, about a book by Beverley Nichols Kaggsy’sBookish Ramblings had sent me to my bookshelves in remembrance of a book from childhood by Nichols, about his cats. I was sent scurrying to a re-read of this following a chance post by a fellow blogger about fictional books with a cat-focus Interesting Literature. Learning the profound arts of purring, mousing, and, above all, washing. ![]()
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