![]() ![]() ![]() Set in the rugged and picturesque Scottish highland, Paul Gallico’s latest and finest work, while it retains the elements of faith and enchantment which have long delighted his many devotees, is primarily a novel of romance, character, and high adventure. How Thomasina, taking full advantage of a cat’s nine lives, brought these three together is a story which may be enjoyed for its face-value excitement and whimsey, but in which the more discerning reader will find both trenchant allegory and spirit-lifting philosophy. There was Andrew’s seven-year-old daughter, who brought her ailing cat, Thomasina, to her father to be cured-only to be bitterly disappointed by Andrew’s hasty and unfeeling disposal of her beloved cat.Īnd there was Lori-beautiful, “daft Lori,” whose gentle and mysterious powers of healing caused some of the villagers to call her a saint-or a witch. ![]() Dour and withdrawn since his wife’s death, he had little patience with wooing sick animals back to health and was said to be a wee bit too quick with the chloroform. There was Andrew MacDhui, Scottish veterinarian, whose bristling manner matched his fiery beard. But it cannot be denied that she changed three lives in a near-miraculous manner. ![]() Perhaps Thomasina did not really have divine powers. ![]()
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