Matthew Flinders' Cat Condition:Good hope and fear

hope and fear

but the main character also abbreviates his name to Ka (his initials) with the novel set in the eastern Turkish city of Kars

with a cup of warm tea within reach

But debut author Meyer's brilliance is in sending the story into an entirely new

your identity

Matthew Flinders' Cat Condition:Good hope and fearBilly O'Shannessy, once a prominent barrister, is now on the street where he sleeps on a bench outside the State Library. Above him on the window sill rests a bronze statue of Matthew Flinders' cat, Trim. Ryan is a ten year old, a near street kid heading for all the usual trouble. The two meet and form an unlikely friendship. Appealing to the boy's imagination by telling him the story of the circumnavigation of Australia as seen through Trim's eyes,