Book Review: Sex and the Kitty by Nancy the Cat
Sex and the Kitty
Nancy the Cat
Plume Books, September 2011
ISBN 978-0452-29742-5
Trade Paperback (e-ARC)
Nancy’s first memoir—she’ll certainly need more as she gets older and, as she says, she’s leaving the door open for possible sequels—sets the record straight on her birth and early life in a small town as she awaits her destiny. Anyone with Nancy’s charm, beauty and wit is bound to find fame and adventure and Nancy’s journey to the high life begins with her jaunts to the local pubs where she develops a human fan base.
She also puts together Team Nancy, a group of local cats whom she instructs on how to be proper fans. Team Nancy includes her cranky stepcat, Pip, as well as Brambles, a Siamese with germophobia, OCD and Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Bella, who’s afraid of being abandoned again, and the adventurous devil-may-care Murphy. Not included in Nancy’s posse for various reasons are Bish, Bash and Bosh, a trio of erudite pet rats, Bruce, a Jack Russell suffering from small dog syndrome and Dennis, the neighborhood alpha cat.
Nancy lands a part in the community theatre production of Animal Farm. Things don’t go too well—suffice it to say chickens are involved. Next thing you know, Nancy has a blog and a Facebook account and then it happens—she gets an agent who promises her stardom but she’ll have to move to London. With a few regrets, Nancy leaves her family and friends behind and heads off to the big city and all it has to offer such a special feline, including the possible attention of that most handsome of kitties, Baron Romeo III. Will this superstar of Kit-E-Licious cat food bring love and happiness to our Nancy?
I confess I’m a solid, hardcore cat lover but, I ask you, how could anyone resist such a feline as Nancy? This little kitty is certainly narcissistic—what cat isn’t?—but she’ll still charm the socks off anyone who’ll give her a chance and she has written a must-read bestseller. Go on, you know you want to.
Reviewed by Lelia Taylor, December 2011.
December 7, 2011
Tags: autobiography, cats, England, general fiction, humor Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews
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2 Responses
Sounds like Nancy s a pretty amazing kitty and set for adventures.
This has got to go on the list of “I wish I’d thought of this!” What a fun-sounding book!
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