- Paperback: 356 pages
- Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd (11 Sep 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1905529686
- ISBN-13: 978-1905529681
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 12.7 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,650,249 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This wonderful new comic novel features Lucia, the cultured cat of Kerry. It tells the story of how she was smuggled from the lush wilds of the Emerald Isle to become London's fluffiest illegal immigrant. To cope with the heartbreak of her sudden exile, Lucia starts a journal documenting the tangled lives of her new owners' stress fuelled urban lifestyles and their attempts to deal with the daily round of love, loss, betrayal and microwave dinners - not to mention the mad aunts, Olga, the Czech Secret Police and the lost vineyards. You know. The usual!!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I wanted to read this one slowly to make it last... but I couldn't hold back and the pages flew by! this book is funny, very funny. Without shirking on some very painful human stories, told with deep sympathy. But like a classic tragi-comedy, our tears are saved by a concatenation of deux ex machina twists that lead us joyfully to a happy crescendo finale, which you'd have to be a real sourpuss (pun intended) not to enjoy! This is a warm, perceptive portrait of us humans struggling through our everyday - and some definitely not everyday - tribulations and hard-won triumphs, brought to us by a very special feline. In sharing her diaries, Lucia the cultured teenage cat gives us a keenly observed, sharply focused - well we know how good cat's eyes are - microcosm of a very local London that, as London does, teems with all manner of fauna and flora, and embraces the exuberant diversity and dark dramas of this world. In one line? The fact is, I always hated cats, but after reading this book, I look around me now and wish I had one - now there's a recommendation!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Cat as narrator has been done before and better. This is still a very pleasant book, however. For self-published authors, though, it would be a good idea to have someone else read through the manuscript before it is printed. Errors such as "lead" for the past tense of "to lead" and "Bondei Beach" make it look amateurish and distract from the book's genuine charm.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a book for anyone who knows how clever and wise cats can be but even if you do not, this is an enjoyable read. I found myself laughing out loud at some of the antics of Lucia (Fluffy to her owner) who was removed from her beloved Kingdom of Kerry to the centre of London, and also of her owner's extended family, the London and Kerry Macs. Lucia is indeed a cultured cat, who learnt French and partakes of exotic take-outs. I do not usually enjoy books 'by animals' but I liked the humour and nostalgia here. I felt the author catches very well the ache or longing someone can have for the place of their childhood. One wonders throughout if she will return or will something else intervene .......
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good book even for non-cat lovers!
`Diaries of a Cultured Cat' is a fun book to read. You get to observe the romantic lives and family ties of a London based Irish brain surgeon through the eyes of the family cat. Read more
Published on 6 Dec 2006 by Deirdre-Ann Barr
Fasinating feline foibles
What fun this book is going to be I thought as I commenced reading this delightful book, From the first page it made me chuckle and sometimes laugh aloud. Read more
Published on 1 Dec 2006 by T. Delahunty
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