A brilliant collection of Lynne Truss’ journalism – recording the life of a metropolitan refugee from coupledom. The alternative ‘Bridget Jones’.
For seven long years, starting in ‘The Listener’ in 1988 and continuing in ‘The Times’ and ‘Woman's Journal’, Lynne Truss has been trying to make her cat laugh. It has been an uphill task, which is why she deserves this book, a recognition of outstanding courage in the face of futility. Along the way, 'Margins', 'Single of Life' and 'One Woman's Journal' have collected a band of devoted fans, yet still the cat remains unimpressed.

Never have so many jokes about Kitbits been found in such concentration as in ‘Making the Cat Laugh’. But under the headings such as 'The Single Woman Considers Going Out but Doesn't Fancy the Hassle' and 'The Single Woman Stays at Home and Goes Quietly Mad', we discover a writer not only obsessed with cats, but prone to over-reacting generally - to news stories, shopping, passive smoking, Christmas, coupledom, boyfriends, snails, sheds, Andre Agassi, cooking instructions, requests of 'How's the novel going?' and personal remarks of any kind.

Book's on the loose at the book fair! Happy reading!

Caught at the Book festival meet up. Thank you!

I read a bit of this every day this week. It's a series of columns the author wrote for a newspaper so perfect for bite size reading. Even though I don't have a cat parts made me laugh a lot, partly because it is also about being a woman living on her own and I have done that. I'm taking it along to the Book Festival meet up today to see if I can find a new reader. If not, I will save for a book box or the Durham uncon. Thanks for sharing. :-)

Picked up at the Edinburgh International Book Festival meetup.