From the bestselling author of A Boy Called Christmas,The Girl Who Saved Christmas,Father Christmas and Me and The Truth Pixie.'A clawed masterpiece'- GuardianBarney Willow's life couldn't get any worse. He's weedy,with sticky-out ears. Horrible Gavin Needle loves tormenting him. And evil headteacher Miss Whipmire seems determined to make Barney's existence a complete misery! Worst of all,Dad has been missing for almost a year - and there's no sign of him ever coming home.Barney just wants to escape. To find another life. To be a cat,for example. A quiet,lazy cat. Things would be so much easier - wouldn't theyA darkly funny and adventurous tale from multi-award-winning author Matt Haig.
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UKISBN: 9780552564342Number of pages: 320Weight: 223 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 19 mm
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A clawed masterpiece...A book about being comfortable in your own skin rather than someone else's furDarkly comic and richly rewarding...Shines with originalityI loved To Be A Cat...Very funny and surprisingHere is the black comedy that made Matt Haig's Shadow Forestso irresistibleA terrific yarn
Matt Haig
An author who blurs the lines between genres,blending fantasy,myth and science fiction to create some of the most inventive and enduringly popular contemporary fiction,Matt Haig is also amongst Waterstones bookseller's favourite authors. His novels include How to Stop Time,The Radleys and The Humans as well as children's books including A Boy Called Christmas and The Girl Who Saved Christmas. He is also the author of the Sunday Times bestseller and Waterstones non-fiction Book of the Month,Reasons to Stay Aliveand the follow up, Notes on a Nervous Planet.
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