The Owl and the Kitty Cat: Stoat Hall, #2

By em thompson

The second short story in The Stoat Hall Legacy Book Club series, The Owl and The Kitty Cat is a brief account of Barney and Kitty's elopement to the land where the Bong Tree grows. In a heart-rending finale, they are married without tarry by the Turkey who lives on the hill, watched by the Piggy-Wig with a ring in the end of his nose and the Pobble who has no toes..

Inspired by the late, great Edward Lear.

Cover illustration by Amelie Ahern-Williams

• Language: English
• Publisher: Eccentric Directions Limited
• Release date: Feb 9, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224748853

em thompson

I write. I eat. I sleep.

Book preview

Do you believe in love at first sight? Well, nor do I, or at least I did not until Aunt Jobiska took me to one side and told me the extraordinary tale of Barney and Kitty.  I am itching to spread the word, so if you are sitting comfortably, I will begin . . .

Imagine if you will a starry, starry night in a small town on the south coast of England. For the sake of convenience, I will call it Seatown. A picture perfect study of a sub-urban conurbation, the alleyways sneaking through the medieval half-timbered lanes were as silent as a limb apart from an occasional jolly jack tar staggering back from the brink, four sheets to the wind. Being late November, a luminous chill was in the air. All but those without much reason were curled up in bed beneath a patchwork quilt or tucked under a duckbilled eiderdown listening to the wind whistling down the chimney. Brrrr . . .

Snug as a proverbial bedbug in this or that rug, some goodly citizens read books or crocheted muffs