Magnificat

Norman Thelwell has worked as a cartoonist for decades, and is the author of many collections including "Angels on Horseback", "Thelwell Country", "Thelwell in Orbit", "A Place of Your Own", "A Leg at Each Corner", "Thelwell's Riding Academy", "Top Dog", "Up the Garden Path", "Compleat Tangler", "Thelwell's Book of Leisure", "This Desirable Plot", "The Effluent Society", "Penelope", "Some Damn Fool's Signed the Rubens Again", "Wrestling With a Pencil", "Thelwell's Pony Panorama" and "Play it as it Lies".

Norman Thelwell took his first kitten home in a shopping-bag slung from the handlebars of his bicycle at the age of ten. He still has the scars to prove it. "Magnificat" is a comic tribute to the mysterious relationship human beings have long had with the feline species.