ReadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2025

Cat Lover

Dan Spencer author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Atlantic Books

Publishing:1st Jan '26

£9.99

This title is due to be published on 1st January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Cat Lover cover

No one sees us the way our pets do - and this pet has plans of his own . . .

When solitary and struggling A&E doctor Ivy invites the Geologist home one night, her cat Berry's hackles are raised. As the Geologist becomes more and more a part of Berry's life, Berry determines to get rid of him. Meanwhile, as Ivy wrestles with her feelings for boyfriends old and new, she's entirely unaware of her cat's designs . . .

Shifting between the perspectives of Ivy and Berry, we watch them tussle over who they are, how they got there and what they desire.

Clever and unputdowable, it left me thinking about it long after I'd finished. Cat Lover is hugely entertaining and provocative; it's a thing of beauty * Brian Conaghan, author of Treacle Town *
Acutely observed and brimming with wit and pathos, Dan Spencer's prose is startling, vivid, and alive * Iain Maloney, author of In the Shadow of Piper Alpha *

ISBN: 9781805461715

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

272 pages

Main