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Cam is quick-witted and clever - sometimes too clever for his own good. When he finds himself in a spot of trouble, he's keen to take a job that will get him out of the way for a while, even if it means he doesn't look at it too closely.
Tasked to take a letter to a far-off city - simple enough, you would think - he instead finds himself caught up in intrigue and dangers beyond those he was escaping, and in possession of a cursed knife he cannot get rid of. And that's before he even looks at the city's cats.
The city's very unusual, unexpectedly intelligent cats.
The city's unusual, intelligent and slightly magical cats, whose fates are now entwined with his.
Tasked to take a letter to a far-off city - simple enough, you would think - he instead finds himself caught up in intrigue and dangers beyond those he was escaping, and in possession of a cursed knife he cannot get rid of. And that's before he even looks at the city's cats.
The city's very unusual, unexpectedly intelligent cats.
The city's unusual, intelligent and slightly magical cats, whose fates are now entwined with his.
About the author
Robert Westall (1929-1993) was born in Northumberland, and grew up in Tyneside during WWII. He studied at Durham University, studying Fine Art, before earning a postgraduate degree in Sculpture from the Slade School of Art, in London. After serving in the British Army for two years, he became a teacher. Alongside this, he wrote more than 40 novels, two non-fiction works, various volumes of short fiction, and contributed to both local and national newspapers. He won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1990 for his novel The Kingdom by the Sea, and that and his 1992 novel Gulf were highly commended runners-up for the Carnegie Medal. He died in 1993.
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