Todd is fourteen, which in cat years is old enough that you know a thing or two and you feel obliged to share your wisdom. He is myopic, wears reading glasses, and favors Dickens, the Brontës, and Austen. Kevin is fourteen pounds of magnificence who has been considering a film career for some years but cannot get around to having his headshots done. Richard is the smallest, wears three bells so everyone always knows where he is, and has a line between his eyes that gives him a permanent expression of what?!

And there is Faerie, who feeds all three, who is outnumbered, and who is, for the record, a dog person.

Seven stories about the daily business of a house with three cats: boxes that stopped fitting, a song nobody was supposed to hear, a guest who left, and a set of headshots that took considerably longer than anyone had planned.

Written and illustrated by Kate O'Neil, for reading aloud at the soft end of the day.