White Chin - the new book PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 21 April 2010 13:02

At last, I can announce that it will be published in August by Catnip and it will be a paperback at £6.99, with superb illustrations by France Bauduin, who drew the picture above which is on the jacket.

Its proper title is WHITE CHIN: the cat that walked by his wild lone.

I will be setting up the website to take orders, but it is too early yet, but as soon as I think I will be getting copies I will put a BUY NOW button on the top of the website, so you can pre-order.

Here is some more information about the book. It is a novel, set in the fells of Cumbria, and it tells the story of a cat, written from the cat’s point of view, of being cruelly abandoned in the woods and having to fend for himself. He has lots of scary adventures on his own in the wild.

Eventually he finds a new life with a little girl called Kirstie, who loves him deeply, but then things go wrong. It is sad and happy and there is a lot about animals of all kinds and country life.

It is meant for Year Six onwards, but I wrote it in a way that I hope that many of my adult cat lovers will enjoy, and I will include an extract in a later update.

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june smele said:

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I am very much looking forward to reading the new book - I am a friend of France who does superb drawings of cats!
She is so excited about the new book, I hope ot sells well, I will be one of the readers.
When will it be ready?
Regards and All the Best for the Book.

June
April 24, 2010

Yvonne Stewart said:

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I'm really looking forward to this book. I've read all your other books many times over, so I know I'll enjoy this one. The drawing by France is superb - as is all her cat drawings.
Best wishes
Yvonne xx
April 25, 2010

Marilyn Edwards said:

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France is indeed an amazing illustrator and I shall put some pictures she has done from the book up on Flickr next week so you can see them there. She is very talented and I am very lucky. June thank you so much for your support and I do hope you will not feel it is too much of a children's book. I hope it will cross the age barrier! It should be available from sometime in July. More news on the website once I know! Marilyn
April 25, 2010

Marilyn Edwards said:

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What a great message Yvonne. I love your certainty that you will enjoy it, and I do hope so. It has produced from France some quite astonishing work, and she really deserves to do well from all her labours as her drawing is wonderfully painstakingly detailed. Thank you from both of us! smilies/grin.gif smilies/wink.gif MARILYN
April 25, 2010

Tim said:

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Good luck with your new book. From your synopsis it sounds like an exciting, uplifting and enchanting story. I love the beautiful illustration too.
Best wishes,
Tim
April 27, 2010

Marilyn Edwards said:

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Tim what a great comment, thank you so much and do hope that it works. Just got back from Catnip sales conference and it was all exciting and they were very enthusiastic, so fingers crossed! smilies/cheesy.gif
April 29, 2010

Kathryn said:

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At last! - an exciting new book to look forward to. Having enjoyed the other books so much, I am sure your new one will be exciting (whatever our age!) Look forward to reading this one very much. Sorry to read Pushkin is unwell, I hope he is making a good recovery. Kind Regards, Kathryn
May 11, 2010

Kathy Arkwright said:

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Dear Marilyn, Just thought I would catch up on your news and I am so chuffed that you have a new book coming out! Really, really exciting news. I shall be ordering as soon as it comes out. Wish I had looked on here sooner. I hope Pushkin is better. Still waiting for hubby,Chris to be fit enough to take you up on your invite. Much love,Kathy (papermate) smilies/kiss.gif
June 20, 2010

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