Princess, by Carolyn Lane.

I reviewed the sequel, Princess and Minerva, earlier. In this one, pampered housecat Princess is lost while her owners are on vacation, and spends a winter struggling to survive with the help of stray cat Minerva. I liked the unsentimental depiction of hunting and survival, and the poignance of Princess’s plight and, ( Read more... )

While I was in Taipei, I went to a used bookshop. In the two cases devoted to English-language books, I found a copy of this book, which I had not recalled since I last read it (when I was nine, probably) but which I recognized immediately from the cover photo ( Read more... )