With their distinctive illustrations and witty stories, Kathleen Hale’s classic tales of Orlando the Marmalade Cat are as enchanting now as when first published over 70 years ago.
In this, one of the family’s many adventures, Orlando, the marmalade cat, takes his dear wife Grace and their three kittens to the seaside where they stay in an old, beached ship. It proves to be the holiday of a lifetime, as they swim, sunbathe, go flying on the tail of a kite, discover a “mermaid” and even help to rescue some shipwrecked travellers.
On the Broad Shoulders of a Eunuch Cat
In 1917, Kathleen Hale arrived in London, fresh out of art school, ‘with only a few shillings in my pocket, my pince-nez delicately chained to one ear and no qualifications whatsoever for earning a...
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