Ex-Library; 13 oz.; 126 pages; 1st US ED Ex library HC w/DJ spine lean DJ faded story clean/tight/bright. With skill and tenderness, Nina Hooke feels her way into the heart of a stray kitten on which the animal kingdom seems no less unfriendly than the human. The abandoned animal finds it way to the door of the one human being in the village who has herself long ago abandoned the world. This is a tale of the quit English countryside and it recalls the very sounds and smells of its lanes and fields and hedges.