Sir Norman the Cat: Letters from a Once-Traumatised Cat [Paperback]

A stray cat is smashed by a hit-and-run car driver. Soon after, a Good Samaritan finds the dying cat and rushes him to a local veterinary clinic. There, the vet takes the moral decision not to put the animal down, but to try to put his broken body back together again. Sir Norman the Cat lives and 'his letters' celebrate all that is good and funny about cats and their human friends. (A.F.Sundberg)

'Sir Norman the Cat's story is about one small animal's will to survive and demonstrates how courage and determination can surmount daunting obstacles...'(SirNorman.com ,September 2005)

Antonella Cane hopes that her Sir Norman the Cat stories will encourage more people to help animals in distress and also discover the joys of bringing a stray four-legged friend into their homes and hearts. If you have a cat story, please write to her - she would love to hear from you. (A.F.Sundberg)

A stray cat is smashed by a hit-and-run car driver. Soon after, a Good Samaritan finds the dying cat and rushes him to a local veterinary clinic. There, the vet takes the moral decision not to put the animal down, but to try to put his broken body back together again. Sir Norman the Cat lives and 'his letters' celebrate all that is good and funny about cats and their human friends. (A.F.Sundberg)

Antonella Cane loves cats. She was born in Alba, Italy in the beautiful mountains near Turin where you find wild truffles growing deep in the ground. Her childhood was coloured by the ritual of digging truffles and the sounds of barking dogs. Her family owned lots of truffle-sniffer dogs - but no cats were allowed in the house! Today, Antonella's house in the UK is happily filled with wonderful cats and she is active as a textile-artist and writer and lives in Edenbridge, Kent and Robilante-Farm (in the mountains near the French-Italian border).

A series of letters by a once-traumatised cat to a place called 'Wild Berry'

This is your life. Once upon a time... once-traumatised... No, I'm no poet, I'm no writer - just a simple house cat. But I do write letters, simple, unpretentious letters. I write letters in which I would like to describe how I started in life, letters to keep all my friends informed about the many exciting things that are happening to me. I first started life as if I was in a dream world, then I was rescued and the reality of life started... after I was able to cope wit my accident by writing funny things about it (doctors call this therapy: integration vs repression). Life can be so exciting for a cat: you just need a little bit of imagination to start with, and then things start happening.

I'm living proof of this, truly, you'll see by my letters.

Sir Norman the Cat

PS As my computer skills were not up to par, an Italian lady gave me a paw to help me type in English and send my messages to 'Wild Berry'.