The ghost cat
(2024, original release: 2023)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
FICTION/HOWARD,A

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Fiction FICTION/HOWARD,A Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Toronto, Ontario : Hanover Square Press, 2024
DESCRIPTION

262 pages ; 19 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781335012333, 1335012338 :, 1335012338, 9781335012333
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"First published in 2023 in the United Kingdom by Black and White, an imprint of Bonnier UK"--Title page verso

Prologue, 1902 -- Cat-sìth -- First Haunting, April 1909 -- Second Haunting, October 1935 -- Third Haunting, August 1942 -- Fourth Haunting, June 1953 -- Fifth Haunting, July 1969 -- Sixth Haunting, October 1997 -- Seventh Haunting, September 2008 -- Eighth Haunting, September 2022 -- Epilogue, December 2022

"Early morning, 1902. At 7/7 Marchmont Crescent, Eilidh the charlady tips coal into a fire grate and sets it alight. Overhearing, Grimalkin the cat ambles over to curl up against the welcome heat and lick his favorite human's hand. But this is to be his last day on earth... before he becomes the Ghost Cat. Follow Grimalkin as he witnesses the changes of the next 120 years, prowling unseen among the inhabitants of an Edinburgh tenement while unearthing some startling revelations about the mystery of existence, the unstoppable march of time and the true meaning of feline companionship"--