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The Year of the Cat by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett's memoir of the strange Pandemic year of 2020-21, the upsettting memories it stirred in her and how adopting a kitten helped her through it.

When she was 23, the writer Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett was violently attacked one night in London. A few years later, she was in Paris on the night of terrorist attacks. In this moving and questioning memoir, set during the Pandemic, she recounts her struggles to overcome these traumas and explores her feelings about the possibility of becoming a mother after growing up caring for her beloved autistic brother.
And - most importantly - how a new kitten helps her with all of this.

The Year of the Cat is written and read by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, abridged by Julian Wilkinson and produced by Nicola Holloway.
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