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Sometimes however having it 'all' isn't all it's cracked to be - having to put up with her husband's ex-wife who spends way too much time at their house. However, I thought it was quite problematic that she attends groups that are about particular things that she does not suffer from. Used to read multiple books each month, but since the pandemic I got in to watching Netflix and show upon show on tv. The story skips along – and has the standard SHOCK moment that I’ve come to expect from Dawn’s fiction books. I think the only thing stopping this getting one star is that I flipping love cats and would absolutely lay down my life for mine - I am cat lady, so those segments where she just loves Pigeon so much got their hooks in me hard.
For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. Then something happens and she makes the decision to finally live life for herself and of course - her cat Pigeon. She lives in fear of losing Pigeon every day - she is the one constant in her life who got her through her former troubled years and still does today. A delightful dark-ish comedy set around a "my pet has died" grief counselling group and essentially about forming and living one's best-self and not taking on a label that society expects from you.It won’t be for everybody but it might be a good choice if you want something easy to listen to as you do your chores!
A fancy house, a husband, a stepson, a fancy job with a jewellery company and best of all, a cat that she loves with all her heart. Writing in first person present, Mia describes every tiny action of her life in minuscule detail - from what she puts into Oliver’s lunchbox, to having a shower, to her and Tristan’s grotesque middle-age sex.Die Helden bleiben unsympatisch und vage, die Story vorhersehbar, auch wenn sie nach der Hälfte endlich besser wird und doch noch knapp 3 Sterne hergibt. OK so she loves her cat Pigeon more than her husband Tristan, is irritated by most of her colleagues, has no friends, and has to put up with her husband’s awful ex-wife Belinda for the sake of her stepson Oliver - but whose life is perfect? Yet she somehow gets back into the room despite the desk barricade she has put in place preventing the door being opened!
The author has clearly never worked in an office - people don’t shout ‘just get back to your desk and work’ at people! Mia is a good wife to husband Tristan, a genuinely loving and caring step-mum to his kids by his last marriage, and very good at her job. There are some weird inconsistencies: there is one mention of the pandemic “There is a woman sitting next to me with a horrible cough. As a self confessed wannabe ‘cat lady’, I really enjoyed reading Mia’s journey from her ‘safe’ existence to her self-realisation of the person she truly is - an independent cat lady living for herself.It’s not 100% fundamental to the story, it could easily have been tweaked to still fit in the plot lines without it having to be changed. It’s not in any way funny (unless you find people dealing with grief, trauma and other mental health issues amusing.
It’s all too easy to give plot spoilers away in these reviews, so I’ll restrict myself merely to saying that after a few chapters, Mia is faced with a life choice brought about by a shattering event that tears open the superficially conventional life she’s been leading thus far. A massive thank you to HarperCollins UK, Harper Fiction and Tandem Collective UK for my early copy of Cat Lady. Enjoyed this book is was funny in parts and the cat lady and her relationship and life problems and was quite dark in parts. Sometimes she has a bit more than 'it all' - there's her husband's ex-wife who spends way too much time at their house and has way more opinions about everything Mia's doing wrong than could really be considered appropriate. There are few remotely likeable characters in the whole thing - her colleague Fliss, her put-upon sister Liz, and the members of her poor maligned support group.With thanks to Netgalley,Dawn O’Porter and HarperCollins UK, HarperFiction for my chance to read and review this book. Anyway, I did read read the epilogue and everything seems to have ended well, I just have absolutely no desire to take the journey to get there.
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