Jolicure Cats

In the spring of 1969, Lorne and JoAnne Bell along with their 17-year-old daughter, Lorrie, Moved from Montreal to the small farming community of Jolicure, New Brunswick. For JoAnne, this meant bliss: Lorne, who never could bear cats, grudgingly agreed to a barn cat. With the arrival of two feisty kittens, the dawning of a new era began — the era of the Jolicure cats. Over the years many cats and kittens — smug ones, aloof ones, affectionate ones and wild ones, cats of many colours and cats with many toes — came and went. But some, the ones that even Lorne came to love, stood out from the rest. Accompanied by realistic illustrations, the twelve stories that make up this charming book are the memoirs of these cats, told with love, humour, tenderness, and at times heartbreaking sorrow.