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By the author of the classic The Snow Goose, a heartbreaking story about a young girl and her most unusual cat, who has magical powers that save her owner's life. Seven-year-old Mary adores her ginger cat, Thomasina, and is crushed when Thomasina falls sick, and Mary’s father, a grim, inflexible man who is the town vet, decrees that the only thing to be done is to put Thomasina down. Mary refuses to speak to her father, and then she herself contracts a life-threatening disease. In the meantime, however, Thomasina has been rescued—by the mysterious Lori, the Red Witch of the glen. Thomasina is…
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7 editions- Paperback · English · 1989International Polygonics · 288 pages · 9780930330934
- Other · English · 2018New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The · 9781681372327
- Other · English · 2014HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 9780007542321
- Other · English · 2011HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 352 pages · 9780007395187
- Other · English · 1985Penguin in association with Joseph · 249 pages · 9780140021516
- Other · English · 1981Penguin Books, Limited · 269 pages · 9780718103699
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