From the back of the book:
"Have you ever wondered what a cat's life is like? Peter is about to find out... Waking from a serious accident, he finds himself transformed. The world is a dangerous place for him, but luckily he is befriended by the kindly cat Jennie."

Passed to a member of the family.
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received today, looking forward to reading Jennie, which I read years ago as a schoolgirl

Received back from a family friend.

I'm taking this book to the Hampshire Bookcrossers meet up today.

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It's years since I last read this, so I was pleased to renew acquaintance with it. PDB11 and I take it in turns to read books to each other, and we enjoyed sharing Gallico's 'The Boy Who Invented the Bubble Gun' (a very different setting, with human protagonists, but a similar story of two random travelling companions who become friends, and a naive boy being befriended by a more worldly-wise, but still fallible and vulnerable adult). Also, I know he likes 'The Silent Miaow', so this should appeal. I can't guarantee to do a convincing Scots accent for Jennie when reading this aloud - but then, I didn't even try to do American accents for the characters in 'The Boy Who Invented the Bubble Gun'.

Do other adults read each other bedtime stories? PDB11 and I started doing this on our honeymoon, when we found an English edition of 'Dragon Rider' by Cornelia Funke (which PDB11 had already read, and I have since read, in the original German, but it's still good in English). Authors we have found work well include Terry Pratchett and Georgette Heyer.

PDB11 and I finally got round to reading this together, and enjoyed many things about it, including the way that it was a mixture of road movie, martial arts movie, and companion volume to The Silent Miaow. However, in the time since I had previously read it, I had forgotten precisely how it ended, and we both found the ending to this book frustrating. Admittedly, as PDB11 commented, it did explain why the human characters were so exaggerated - and I thought it also explained some incongruities in the way feline society is portrayed, like the idea that a dominant tomcat can demand a female to be his mate, not just for one mating, but apparently for life.

I donated this and a few other books to Shepton Community Bookshop, a shop which I am very fond of. I enjoyed visiting, and meeting some of the other customers (especially a family with small children - I was glad to be able to help them find the picture-books section for young children, on the set of low shelves immediately by the window). Unfortunately, once the other customers had gone, I started getting agitated about something I had found in another book I was browsing through, and the current volunteer on duty had to ask me to leave. Sorry! (I wasn't drunk - just emotionally erratic.)