Lynne Truss’ first novel in 15 years will leave you treating cats with suspicion in future
AUTHOR and journalist Lynne Truss is perhaps best-known for Eats, Shoots And Leaves, her humorous guide to using grammar correctly. Now, she heads in a very different route for her first novel in 15 years. Cat Out Of Hell is a comedy horror that follows the story of the dashingly handsome talking cat Roger.
Roger is immortal, and has been forever haunted by the evil Captain, the biggest and baddest of talking cats, who can murder with a single hiss. The story is narrated by a retired librarian, who along with his adorable dog Watson (who in Truss’s own words is the hero of the story), have to put a stop to the whole saga before any more blood is spilled.
While being genuinely creepy at times, with an alarming number of human deaths involved for a book about cats, the novella is also hilarious.
Just be prepared to view cats with a certain amount of suspicion from now on.
Harriet Shephard
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