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When I read the synopsis of this book, I noticed that one of the characters is a talking cat and immediately worried that it might be rather a cutesy book. I was completely wrong – a cat who is prepared to discuss Kant, Sartre and Hegel would surely be offended by being called cutesy. LA based stay-at-home Mum Livi becomes best friends with fellow mum Jamie, but over time their friendship deepens into love and eventually into a sexual relationship. Although both remain married, the relationship lasts for 20 years but Livi’s insecurity, stemming from childhood, and possessiveness coupled with Jamie’s chaotic personality and unusual interpretations of the truth mean that it is often tempestuous. However the final break eventually happens and, with her husband working away from home, Livi packs up her laptop and her cats and heads back to her home town in Mississippi to lick her wounds and write her book. (THIS book? I kept wondering whether it was autobiographical.) The book is packed with well-written characters. Even though the two main characters are women I don’t think I would want as friends, their personalities come over very clearly making it easy to understand why they fall in love and yet set sparks flying from each other. Siggy the cat is an absolute star, but my absolute favourite character is bar-dwelling ageing rocker Mabel, who moved me to both laughter and tears. My only reservation about this book is the amount of philosophical discussion in it, caused by Livi’s tendency to over-analyse every action and look for motives where there are none. Not having studied philosophy myself, I found a few of the passages hard to follow. That apart, I loved the book.

Jane Willis, A LoveReading Ambassador

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Primary Genre Modern and Contemporary Fiction

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