Cleo - Helen Brown Gentry

Cleo - Helen Brown Gentry (2009)

Helen Brown Gentry is one of those amusing columinists whose slice of family life has featured over the years in various New Zealand newspapers and magazines. In this little book, she tells how her sons pick a black kitten out of a friends cats litter and decide to call her Cleo.

Then, just a week before the kitten is due home, tragedy strikes with her eldest boy Sam being hit by a driver on one of Wellingtons windy roads. Not really wanting a cat, Helen sees that the kitten Cleo will help her youngest son to heal and Cleo becomes an important member of the family.

Sweet without being sickly, I enjoyed the story of this grand girl, I think she was 23 years young by the end of the book. Not just for cat lovers, this is essentially a story about modern family life. 3/5