The New Boy Tovey, Doreen

Doreen Tovey is back with another cat. After years chronicling the chaos of living with Siamese cats (and the occasional donkey), she and her husband Charles take on a new challenge: a Siamese kitten named Seeley. Naturally, he's a terror. He scales curtains, terrorizes the neighbourhood, and develops an obsession with stealing things. But he's also absurdly charming, and Tovey writes about him with the kind of wry affection that makes you laugh even as you're wincing at the destruction. This is English countryside memoir at its coziest — gentle, funny, full of animal antics and village eccentrics. If you've read *Cats in the Belfry* or *Cats in May*, you know what you're getting. If you haven't, start here. It's the literary equivalent of a cup of tea and a biscuit on a rainy afternoon.