Thomasina: The Cat Who Thought She Was a God (New York Review Children's Collection)

By the author of the classic The Snow Goose a heartbreaking story about a young girl and her most unusual cat who has magical powers that save her owners life. Seven-year-old Mary adores her ginger cat Thomasina and is crushed when Thomasina falls sick and Marys father a grim inflexible man who is the town vet decrees that the only thing to be done is to put Thomasina down. Mary refuses to speak to her father and then she herself contracts a life-threatening disease. In the meantime however Thomasina has been rescuedby the mysterious Lori the Red Witch of the glen. Thomasina is now Talitha the descendant of an Egyptian goddess and she is coming back to seek revenge! Thomasina like Jenny of The Abandoned Paul Gallicos other great feline heroine (Jenny is Thomasinas great-aunt) tells her own story in her own way witty charming divine and sometimes as sharp as an unsheathed claw. Thomasina is a cat for the ages. Thomasina is a sheer delight.