To Be A Cat: A darkly funny and adventurous tale from the multi-award-winning author
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'A clawed masterpiece' - Guardian
'A writer of great talent' - New York Times
Barney Willow's life couldn't get any worse. Horrible Gavin Needle loves tormenting him. Evil headteacher Miss Whipmire seems determined to make his existence a complete misery. Worst of all, Dad has been missing for almost a year - and there's no sign of him ever coming home.
Barney just wants to escape. To find another life. To be a cat, for example. A quiet, lazy, carefree cat. Things would be so much easier - wouldn't they . . . ?
'Darkly comic and richly rewarding' - Telegraph
From the bestselling author of A Boy Called Christmas, The Girl Who Saved Christmas, Father Christmas and Me and The Truth Pixie.
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About the author
Matt Haig is a British author for children and adults. His memoir Reasons to Stay Alive was a number one bestseller, staying in the British top ten for 46 weeks. His children's novels have won the Smarties Gold Medal, the Blue Peter Book of the Year, been shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and nominated for the Carnegie Medal three times.
His books have received praise from Neil Gaiman, Stephen Fry, Jeanette Winterson, Joanne Harris, Patrick Ness, Ian Rankin and SJ Watson, among others. The Guardian summed up his writing as 'funny, clever and quite, quite lovely' by The Times and the New York Times called him 'a writer of great talent'.
He assures us he has never, ever been a cat, despite rumours he was once a rather grumpy ginger moggy named Jeffrey.
