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Reserved for the cat

Reserved for the cat

Book 2007

Paris ballet dancer Ninette Dupond has three days to find new work before she will be thrown out of her apartment for not making the rent. On the eve of the third day, filled with despair, she return to her garret to find a thin, rangy, tabby-striped tomcat sitting on her windowsill who abruptly speaks to her, mind-to-mind. The cat proposes she leave France, go to England, impersonate Nina Tchereslavsky, a renowned Russian ballerina and work in a...