'Gentle meditative... Cat lovers prepare to weep' THE TIMES Book of the Month It was the
end of summer 1977. I found a cat a little ball of fluff. A teeny tiny baby kitten. A
beloved Japanese modern classic about our special connection with cats and how they can change
our lives over the course of a lifetime. For the last twenty years Japanese readers have
been falling in love with Mayumi Inaba's story of life with her cat Mii after she rescued her
as a newborn kitten from a riverbank in Tokyo. We follow their everyday joys through the
seasons as Mayumi develops her career as a writer and finds her feet in life with her small
feline always at her side. Mornings With My Cat Mii lovingly chronicles Mayumi and Mii's
unshakeable twenty-year bond meditating on solitude companionship the writing life and how
we care for our cats as they grow older. Translated into English for the first time by
world-renowned translator Ginny Tapley Takemori this beloved Japanese modern classic is a
celebration of how a cat can change our lives forever. Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori
** Readers ADORE Mornings with My Cat Mii ** 'I cried. Books rarely make me cry ... but this
one was absolutely beautiful regardless. It made me reflect on grief and love and how to love
is to feel intensely (for better or for worse)' 'Gentle and enchanting and had me in floods by
the end' 'Loved this! A poetic beautiful ode to a cat that changed a woman's life ... it's
sweet sad but ultimately a gorgeous little book ... a lovely little gem' 'Sweet and
heartbreaking' 'This book was just so pure and beautiful' 'As someone who has been deeply
affected by the loss of cats in the past ... this was raw emotional and relatable' 'As a cat
mum this destroyed me' 'Told with grace beauty and love'
