Cat out of Hell
  • Published: 27 February 2014
  • ISBN: 9781448165285
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256

Cat out of Hell

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27 Feb 2014
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By acclaimed storyteller Lynne Truss, author of the bestselling Eats, Shoots & Leaves, the mesmerising tale of a cat with nine lives, and a relationship as ancient as time itself and just as powerful.

By acclaimed storyteller Lynne Truss, author of the bestselling Eats, Shoots and Leaves, the mesmerising tale of a cat with nine lives, and a relationship as ancient as time itself and just as powerful.

The scene: a cottage on the coast on a windy evening. Inside, a room with curtains drawn. Tea has just been made. A kettle still steams.

Under a pool of yellow light, two figures face each other across a kitchen table. A man and a cat.

The story about to be related is so unusual yet so terrifyingly plausible that it demands to be told in a single sitting.

The man clears his throat, and leans forward, expectant.

'Shall we begin?' says the cat ...
  • Published: 27 February 2014
  • ISBN: 9781448165285
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
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About the author

Lynne Truss

Bestselling author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves and Talk to the Hand, Lynne Truss is a journalist, arts and book reviewer, sports columnist and a regular broadcaster for BBC's Radio 4. She's had two plays performed at the Edinburgh Festival, including 'Hell's Bells' in 2012. Her latest book is Get Her Off The Pitch: How Sports Took Over My Life. Nine Lives is her fourth novel, and the first in over ten years.

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Praise for Cat out of Hell

A wonderful tale full of parodies, pastiches and paradoxes… pure joy

Telegraph

One of those rare books that actually makes you laugh out loud... impossible not to read in one sitting

Sunday Times

Truss brings an eerie, 19th-century kind of horror into the present-day world

Guardian

Warm humour was what made Eats, Shoots & Leaves a hit and she hasn’t lost her touch

Evening Standard

An inventive tale that’s sure to make you smile. Even if you’re a dog person

SFX

Tremendous fun

SciFi Now

A Gothic tale guaranteed to surprise, move and entertain

Woman's Weekly

A novel as entertaining as it is addictive ... the best in humorous writing

Sunday Telegraph

A comic chiller in the best tradition of mad British humour

Daily Express

I doubt there are many authors with the wit, never mind the willingness, to render the glub and gruesome as well as Lynne Truss does

Tor.com

Both crisply amusing and genuinely scary, it's a bold, clever fable that is highly entertaining, an enigmatic modern mystery that is destined to become a modern classic

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