Product Description
Two young cats, Fannie and Titus, having been born and brought up as devoted sisters in the previously tranquil surroundings of Moon Cottage, suddenly find they have to deal with the vigorous disruption of the usurper Pushkin, a young Russian Blue tom kitten. Pushkin establishes his own ground rules for his survival in this female feline fastness, but there are many obstacles to be overcome in the struggle for co-existence amongst the three cats. At no point in this narrative, which is at times funny and at others touching, do the cats ever lose their feline integrity.
The author, on the one hand, lovingly captures the details of her cats’ behaviour and examines topics such as feline jealousy, emotional security and the degrees of affection a cat may feel for its human companion and on the other hand raises many of the issues that cat lovers themselves experience, such as the anguish of deciding “house-cat” or “free-roaming”, the pain of cats going missing, the empathy of nursing a cat through illness and the great privilege of loving and being loved in return by those extraordinary animals who remain among us and yet are not of us.
The book is, again, magnificently illustrated by the artist Peter Warner.
The author, on the one hand, lovingly captures the details of her cats’ behaviour and examines topics such as feline jealousy, emotional security and the degrees of affection a cat may feel for its human companion and on the other hand raises many of the issues that cat lovers themselves experience, such as the anguish of deciding “house-cat” or “free-roaming”, the pain of cats going missing, the empathy of nursing a cat through illness and the great privilege of loving and being loved in return by those extraordinary animals who remain among us and yet are not of us.
The book is, again, magnificently illustrated by the artist Peter Warner.
From the Author
Readers comments to the author are very welcome. Email to Mooncottagecats@hotmail.com
About the Author
Marilyn Edwards lives in Hertfordshire with her husband, his son and their three cats. This is her second book and is a sequel to the bestselling The Cats of Moon Cottage, which tells of the lives of Otto, the birth of her kittens Beetle, Fannie and Titus and her long suffering older companion, Septi.
Excerpted from More Cat Tales from Moon Cottage by Marilyn Edwards. Copyright © 2004. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
"I am in awe at the pleasure I,and so many others like me, receive from the company of cats, and only hope that in part I may repay to my own companion cats particularly, and all cats as a species, the gift that they give to me, to us all. I love most animals, I might even say all animals, and high up on that list are whales, dolphins, horses and dogs. Dogs were my first love in fact, and it is only much later that I have come to revere cats as I now do. They are not better than other animals, they are simply their own creatures whose subtleties and intelligences continue to hold me in thrall, and of whose antics I shall never tire" End of Chapter 18 of More Cat Tales from Moon Cottage by Marilyn Edwards
