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The Ghost Cat

A Novel

by Alex Howard
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A charming novel for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and How to Stop Time, following a cat through his nine lives in Edinburgh, moving through the ever-changing city and meeting its inhabitants over centuries
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.

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    August 27, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9780369749291

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      • ISBN: 9780369749291
      • File size: 1467 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      March 1, 2024

      UK author Howard (Library Cat) makes his U.S. debut with this tale of a ghost cat, who spends his last day alive curled up by the fire in 1902. He returns as a ghost cat, haunting the inhabitants of an Edinburgh tenement and witnessing history across two centuries. Prepub Alert.

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      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Booklist

      May 15, 2024
      Grimalkin is an elderly tabby cat who lives comfortably in a Scottish Victorian house in 1902. Upon his accidental death, he is given a choice--take peaceful oblivion, or experience the rest of his nine lives as a ghost, which he chooses. His story proceeds in small bursts of time as he moves from 1902 to September of 2022, hitting all the important points of human history. Along the way, he learns more about what kind of cat he aspires to be as each new experience in his life gives him more emotional intelligence. Howard's latest (after The Library Cat, 2016) is a quintessentially British book, almost comically stereotypical in attitudes and writing style. Grimalkin stands in for the British nation as a whole, as it goes from being a tightly wound Victorian society to a more liberal-minded nation in modern times. Although there are small moments of indecision and struggle in the writing, anyone who loves cats and considers them family will adore Grimalkin, whose emotional attachments become the sweet center of the novel.

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