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Episode Three: Lockdown Summer

In this memoir of the year of the pandemic, the new kitten brings solace during a summer lockdown.

As the summer blazes, and lockdown continues, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett enjoys her garden and considers her neighbours, past and present. She celebrates a lockdown birthday, and new pet Mackerel helps when everything feels just too much.

The Year of the Cat is a moving and compassionate memoir about surviving trauma and finding new ways to live and to love.

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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14 minutes