By the author of the classic The Snow Goose, a heartbreaking story
about a young girl and her most unusual cat, who has magical powers that
save her owner's life.
Seven-year-old Mary adores her ginger cat, Thomasina, and is crushed
when Thomasina falls sick, and Mary's father, a grim, inflexible man who
is the town vet, decrees that the only thing to be done is to put
Thomasina down. Mary refuses to speak to her father, and then she
herself contracts a life-threatening disease. In the meantime, however,
Thomasina has been rescued--by the mysterious Lori, the Red Witch of the
glen. Thomasina is now Talitha, the descendant of an Egyptian goddess,
and she is coming back to seek revenge!
Thomasina, like Jenny of The Abandoned, Paul Gallico's other great
feline heroine (Jenny is Thomasina's great-aunt), tells her own story in
her own way, witty, charming, divine, and sometimes as sharp as an
unsheathed claw. Thomasina is a cat for the ages. Thomasina is a sheer
delight.