There’s also something very particular about a slightly sarcastic and curmudgeonly magical chum. There’s something very particularly British (and very particularly mid-twentieth century British) about magic being found on your doorstep. What I liked, however, was how immediate and everyday this magic was. The spell must be broken by Rosemary who, in trying to find extra money to bring home to her impoverished mother, finds herself embroiled in mysterious and magical goings on. I like the way that libraries do that sometimes they give you the things that you did not quite mean to get and yet knew you always wanted.Ĭarbonel is a cat and he is under a spell. Carbonel has been on my radar for some time and so when I spotted it, I grabbed. I had prepared for this day with a visit to the library, picking things that I thought might be in my wheelhouse and things that I had been meaning to read for some while and yet never got around to it. When it is a hot day, we turn to the shadows and we read the books. Carbonel: The King of the Cats by Barbara Sleigh
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