Further Adventures of Tabitha Miggins, Ship's Cat on the Pill Ferry

Here we go; here's another set of half-witted adventures and reminiscences from that most furry of all heroines, Tabitha Miggins. She's still brave, furry, resolute, bushy-tailed, adventurous and bewhiskered and she certainly does not match "the cat i' the adage" (another one for Shakespeare fans). In this (eminently bushy) tale, she manages to change the course of history thanks to a slight faux paw. It gets better, though, thanks to Tabitha going to have a chinwag with her future self, so as to find out how she saved the world from the radical, new history that she'd caused. As it turns out, saving the world involves passing Warp speed and knitting at Weft speed, even though this means Tabitha knitting herself out of history altogether. Some days a cat has to do what a cat has to do; that's what duty's all about. If all this isn't enough, Tabitha meets up again with the dastardly Smuckle and we find out how he survived throwing himself in the sea whilst bound in heavy, iron chains back in the last book. We also get to find out how the decorating in his hideout on Lundy went. And if that isn't enough, there lots more knitting, not to mention gallons of Pill Brewery Milk Stout, and we even get to hear about Nutter Slater's not-so-secret life as leader of The Pill Morris, the most feared Morris Team in the civilized world...and let's mention that their 'Obby 'Oss is the stuff of nightmare - and it's no good simply sticking your head under the covers. It knows where you are. And what you've done. Sleep tight, now, little ones, sleep tight.

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