Cat Lady: The hot, must-read Richard & Judy Book Club novel for summer 2023 from the Sunday Times bestselling author

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Leaving aside some really explicit stuff just thrown in there for shock value (at one point early on I was very worried that this woman was going to sexually abuse her cat), it's a story about a woman who has quite a tough, lonely upbringing who feels like she needs to conform to certain standards.

Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). I loved laughing with/at some of the characters and I was emotionally destroyed* as I watched some of the characters' lives unravel. However, I thought it was quite problematic that she attends groups that are about particular things that she does not suffer from. She's a good wife to her husband Tristan, a doting stepmother, she slips on her suit for work each morning like a new skin. To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose.

Anyway, I did read read the epilogue and everything seems to have ended well, I just have absolutely no desire to take the journey to get there.

But deep down it’s core is connecting with your pet and other like minded animal lovers,,finding yourself and not caring about what others think or do as long as you are happy. Her only mainstay her beloved cat Pigeon (the absolute star of this book) It’s quirky,it’s cringy,it’s sad,it’s amusing,it’s over the top situations. This is another of those books about quirky oddballs finding their place in the world that have been super popular in womens’ fiction in recent years. She lives in fear of losing Pigeon every day - she is the one constant in her life who got her through her former troubled years and still does today.

With thanks to Netgalley,Dawn O’Porter and HarperCollins UK, HarperFiction for my chance to read and review this book. There's a brief mention of covid but then next minute she's in a hospital environment with filthy hands and no mention of any mask wearing or the fact you still can't really visit people in hospital! Somehow DO'P has missed that mothers day is always a Sunday and has her characters going to work that day which doesn't make any sense.

I’ll admit I initially found the quips about being a ‘cat lady’ and her intense pet relationship a bit odd, but once her back story starts to be told I completely understood the premise and the MC far better. Mia, the career woman: Determined to bring Isabella May jewellery to the big leagues, Mia doesn't put up with any nonsense at work - even if it's coming from her boss, a rich millennial. I could relate to Mia's love for Pigeon and her wish to protect herself from just about every other living being. Cat Lady follows Mia who starts attending a pet bereavement support group despite her cat being very much alive.Die Helden bleiben unsympatisch und vage, die Story vorhersehbar, auch wenn sie nach der Hälfte endlich besser wird und doch noch knapp 3 Sterne hergibt.

Dawn is the bestselling author of the novels The Cows and the Richard and Judy Book Club pick So Lucky, and her non-fiction title Life in Pieces was also a Sunday Times bestseller.I found the special relationships that people have with their pets very moving, and how deep the grief can be when they die. I liked that Mia does learn that her initial judgements on the people around her are shown to be shallow, and that everyone has their own problems happened in the behind the scenes, just as she does.