Looking for information about Doreen Tovey's life and work.?

She wrote about siamese cats.
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A wonderful woman; when her husband Rene died, she had to learn to do all the jobs he used to do- even driving the car, and unfortunately I cant remember the name of the book she wrote about this, and how she felt him watching her..it was most moving. Ask at your local library; on fiche they will have details of every book she wrote, and you will then be able to order them to read. I wish you as much joy as I have had from her books.

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She wrote "Cats in May", "Cats in the Belfrey" and other books. She lived in an old cottage near Bristol in England with her husband, two Siamese cats and a donkey.

She wrote an autobiographical account of her childhood and young adult life -- "Roses Round the Door":

'Roses Round the Door' is the story of Doreen Tovey's life as a child and young woman in Somerset, England and her wartime marriage. In it she portrays a way of life long since vanished from her childhood in the 1920s when she lived with her grandmother, uncle and Aunt Louise to life with her husband Charles during the war. This book is written with humour and observation and culminates in the acquisition of the cottage that features so predominantly in all her other books and in which she still lives. Stories of how the young Doreen became locked into an outside privy during a country wedding, going on a bicycle tour with her accident prone aunt, her wartime marriage in the heavily bombed city of Bristol, the idiosyncrasies of the landlord and what happened when she tried making sweets during the dark days of rationing are ! just some of the many humourous events that make up this entertaining work.

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Doreen Tovey's books were published in paperback in the mid 1990s by Bantam Books. They may be out of print now. Try your library. Titles include 'Cats in the Belfry', 'More Cats in the Belfry', 'Cats in May', 'Double Trouble', 'The New Boy' %26 'The Coming of Saska'. Many of her books are aailable on Ebay %26 there are several websites devoted to her books. Her books are a joy to any reader who has been owned by a cat.

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look on amazon.co.uk. they have a list of books by her.