The goodbye catAgainst changing seasons in Japan, seven cats weave their way through their owners' lives. We meet Spin, a kitten rescued from the recycling bin, whose simple needs teach an anxious father how to parent his own human baby; a colony of wild cats on a holiday island shows a young boy not to stand in nature's way; a family is perplexed by their cat's devotion to their charismatic but uncaring father; a woman curses how her cat constantly visits her at

not even light can escape its grasp

For the last seven years I have suffered with crippling anxiety

reading widely and writing poetry

mostly unknown universe

Over twenty-five years

malevolent and almost all-powerful

where lies are indistinguishable from the truth and with more than one unexpected twist

to remote paradise islands

& leaves for a small village in Sweden

a cave filled with bright blue glow worms

Yet given the essential function of interest in determining how capital is allocated and priced

the country is polarised between Right and Left and Themis' family is bitterly divided