- Children's fiction, Cats, fiction
The year is 1664 when young Will Godwin comes to London. In order to survive, he becomes an assistant to a wicked alchemist, Elias Theophratus Spittle. On an errand one freezing night, Will finds a mother cat and her three kittens, and brings the family back to his master's lab.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Robin Jarvis
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 331
- Publisher
- Macdonald Young Books, Simon & Schuster
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780750008891
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