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    Cat Life
    Cat Life
    Cat Life
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    Cat Life

    By Girona Writers

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    A cat has nine lives (but only seven in Spain!) The book takes us from Bella's modest beginning in Manchester to the height of her fame as Kat the super-model in high fashion for cats. And then she has to face the fact that she is no longer famous and is not recognised in supermarkets.
    And time is running out. Each chapter is a life lost!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateNov 11, 2016
    ISBN9781365527517
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      Cat Life - Girona Writers

      Cat Life

      Cat Life

      Introduction

      This book was written by members and friends of Girona Social Meetup. We had the idea early in 2016 to write a book about a cat and its nine lives. In each chapter, the cat loses a life. And each chapter is written by a different person with their own country as the location.

      All they were given were the four main characters, it was not practical to ask them to follow on from the previous chapter because in some cases it was not even written! And the order of the countries was decided later when the editor created a time-scale and linked the chapters. For example, Wayne starts at 15 years of age in Manchester but is almost 18 by the time he falls in love with Marti in Ukraine, because the span of the book is about three years.

      Meetup.com is an organisation based in the USA which enables social groups to meet around the world with many different interests but all using the same website format. Rather like Facebook but actually meeting in person! For example, Girona Social Meetup has a regular language exchange. In the whole world, there are thousands of Meetup groups. Where we live in Girona, there are about 20. In Barcelona, there are hundreds. We would like to use this book to express gratitude to Meetup for bringing us together. But Meetup.com had no hand in the production of the book. All our own work!

      The Beginning

      That morning in Cat Heaven was much like any other. The little electric milk-float arrived at seven in the morning with the cheerful clink of glass bottles which filled the English cats with waves of nostalgia and some even cried - it went back to a time in the past before everyone bought UHT milk in plastic bottles from Lidl.  And then an hour or two later, the fish delivery arrived from Cat-Ocean in a small white van with exotic sea creatures, some still alive, basking in crushed ice. But for one member of this community, today was different. It was time to return to that strange place called Earth.  Animals in heaven never get to meet their deity but instead there is Angel Gabby, its deputy. The parting message from Gabby was always the same, remember you only have nine lives. When they run out, you come back here.

      There were lots of heavens, each for a different animal because animals were always reincarnated as the same species. And they were all spaced far enough away from each other among the clouds to avoid one disturbing the others. For example the dogs barking would have upset the cats. Humans think wrongly that maybe, next time, they come back as a frog. There was an enormous heaven for Humans which many of them believe in.

      So, on this particular morning with trepidation a small cat took the long pale white staircase which threads its way down through the clouds towards Earth and we follow its story.........

      Life One - Manchester, England

      Once upon a time, in Manchester there was a happy little family: mum and dad and their only child, a boy of 15 called Wayne. They lived in a very large house. They had often spoken about having another child but somehow they never got round to it. When asked on the subject by friends, their reply was usually, we are trying.

      The age of fifteen is when some boys grow into adults seemingly overnight and that was the case with Wayne. One minute he was an angelic choirboy, the parents looked away for a moment and all of a sudden he had shot up in height and was a younger version of his footballer namesake with a deep male voice. But for a time it switched to being squeaky and high which is one of the embarrassments that teenage boys have to endure. Just at the time when they want to appear more adult and sophisticated.

      Wayne suffered a lot from that.

      The husband was called David, a nice straight-forward English name and he leaves the scene quite rapidly. And the wife was called Henry. And this book follows her new career which we will read about very soon. She often had to explain her strange name; that it was on account of her parents wanting a boy. They also dressed her in boy’s clothes and gave her toy soldiers instead of dolls. Her bike was blue as opposed to pink. But this is more common these days because parents can choose the sex of their children after birth. Or maybe just choose gender-neutral in which case the child can decide on its sex later when it is mature enough to do so, at the age of 8. But despite all that parental persuasion Henry grew up to be a normal well-adjusted woman.

      And now she was desperately sad because, with Wayne a beefy young mini-adult now, she really missed having a girly young girl to help her with the cake making and the ironing. All the things that girls do these days. So she put her energy into her other little family and that is where the theme of this book arrives and with it the subsequent break-up of the marriage. Because her obsession was saving the lives of unwanted stray cats in the neighbourhood. And this infuriated David who had a very busy career as a dress designer, indeed as a world-famous dress designer, and it didn’t help the relationship with his celebrity clients to be living in a house full of cats.

      This is a sad book because it is about one particular cat, the hero of our story, who died after its nine lives ran out but we wait till the last chapter for that. So we don’t have to be too upset early on. And anyway, it is about nine lives and most of us only have one - the span of that is not very great in the scale of the Universe around us. So don’t be sad.

      Manchester rather unfairly has a reputation for frequent rain but, on this occasion, it was raining..... cats and dogs. But more cats than dogs.

      Our hero (or should it be heroine?) is a female cat and she entered the world as a small damp bundle of black and white fur in an alley in one of the poorer areas of Manchester, near to the canal, together with its siblings, most of whom died. So they didn’t even make it to life number one. The mother wasn’t sure who the father was. She did ask after the event, by the way, what was your name? But he scarpered quickly not wishing to pay for child support. She got run over by an electric milk delivery van soon after giving birth. So this was not an auspicious start to life for the subject of this book.

      Mummy cat never got a chance to give her a name so that fell to Henry. So, not long after its birth our heroine was being scooped up into the arms of a large buxom lady with a generous chest to which she clutched this small object. So much so that she nearly suffocated her. Henry loved Italy and the Italian language although she didn’t speak it so she chose Bella, as a shortened version

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