At a similar time, yes - a different publisher, with news on the way!

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Thank you - I so appreciate it! 🐈‍⬛

Thank you, Nicola! I pushed and pushed for that photo, so I’m glad you like it!

Some trivia: The cat Spark’s holding on the cover was named Spider; she’d adopted him from Patricia Highsmith. Spider was a fan of fireworks - he found that their booms tended to stun the nearby lizards, making them easy for him to hunt down and kill. I imagine Spark admired this display of cunning…

Ah thank you - that means a lot 🐈‍⬛

Ah thank you! 🐈‍⬛

Spoiler: obeying the “queer dictatorial” voice in your head leads to you getting up to all sorts in South Africa, London, New York, Rome and Tuscany, writing 22 wild and uncompromising novels, meeting several useless men, adopting innumerable stray cats, and sporting some really enormous hairdos ✨

Thank you, that means a lot! 🐈‍⬛

Thank you, that’s lovely to hear! 🐈‍⬛

“I am paralysed as a writer”, Spark once said, “unless I write according to this queer dictatorial sense I have”.

This is a book about restlessness, reinvention and the kind of life that can unfold when you choose to obey the “queer, dictatorial” voice in your head.

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Thank you! I’d love to get a proof to you (you are name-checked in it, after all!) 🐈‍⬛

Letterboxd, Bebo, Christian Mingle - if there’s a nice thing said, I shall indeed be reposting

I’m being shameless across all this platforms, Philli

What a picture!

We sent an early copy of Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark to Francesca Wade, whose books I love, and she wrote the blurb of my dreams. ‘Slippery’! ‘Chaotic’! ‘Often hilarious’! 🐈‍⬛

Thank you, David!