Cat on a Hot Tiled Roof: Mayhem in Mayfair and Mallorca
Author(s): Anna Nicholas (Author)
Publisher: Summersdale
Publication Date: 4 Aug. 2008
Language: English
Print length: 352 pages
ISBN-10: 1840246839
ISBN-13: 9781840246834
Book Description
Having moved with her family to rural Mallorca to escape the stresses of London life, PR consultant Anna Nicholas continues to commute back to her glitzy Mayfair agency to earn a crust. Meanwhile she is harbouring a bizarre dream to open a luxury cattery on the island – unbeknownst to her long suffering Scottish husband, Alan, and son, Oliver.
Life in the mountains is never uneventful as the author gets to grips with phantom sheep, midnight snail hunts, Catalan lessons, ghosts, floods and flighty hens. London also has its challenges, as she juggles eccentric, rich and often neurotic clients between Mayfair and Manhattan and is hotly pursued by lucrative deals. But increasingly Anna finds herself craving the simple life of her Spanish idyll because as she discovers, you can take the girl out of Mallorca, but you can’t take Mallorca out of the girl.
Wickedly irreverent, laugh out loud funny and lovingly observed, Cat on a Hot Tiled Roof celebrates the wonders of Mallorcan rural life.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘an equally excellent sequel to A Lizard in my Luggage… bounces with life and enthusiasm… a live-wire of a book’ — suite101.com, August 22, 2008
`Anna Nicholas has a tremendous gift for descriptive writing.’ —
Nicholas Parsons, actor, broadcaster & chairman, BBC’s Just a minute
`In the follow-up to her first book… Life in the mountains is never uneventful.’ —
Spanish Homes, September 2008
`It’s the sort of book that makes one realise what’s important in life; A feel good book.’ —
Sesame Magazine, August 2008
`The great pleasure of reading her account… is her use of language… picturesque and humorous… illuminating… life in Mallorca.’ —
The Anglo-Spanish Society Newsletter, Spring 2009
`This entertaining book will appeal to those trying to get the career-life balance just right – and anyone who likes cats.’ —
Bingham & South Notts Advertiser, August 29, 2008
`Witty, evocative and heart-warming. Another Mallorcan pearl from Anna Nicholas.’ —
Peter Kerr, best selling Scottish travel writer
`a great read… a series of blissful, chapter long, escape windows from the daily rat race.’ —
St Christopher’s ezine, September 08
`extremely funny’ —
Island Life Magazine, September 2008
`highly entertaining’ —
The Scientific Exploration Society, August 08
Review
`In the follow-up to her first book… Life in the mountains is never uneventful.’
Book Description
`a great read… a series of blissful, chapter long, escape windows from the daily rat race.’
About the Author
Based In – Mallorca
Anna Nicholas is a freelance journalist and PR Consultant. She has run five full marathons in different countries in the last five years and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of Women in Journalism. She has been an international invigilator for the Guinness Book of Records and organised an expedition to carry a piano to a remote Amerindian tribe in South America, which was the subject of a BBC TV documentary.
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