SEX & THE KITTY
Sex & The Kitty
Nancy the Cat
UK & Commonwealth rights: Constable & Robinson
US & Canadian rights: Penguin (Plume)
German rights: Droemer
All other rights available
"Sex and the Kitty is one of those books you have to read to believe. There are many pet books on the market - Marley and Me, for example, but this is the first book I've come across written by a cat." - Chick Lit Reviews
"You don't even have to be a cat person to appreciate the humorous send-up of the shallow human wannabes who'd do anything to get their five minutes of fame" - The Pulse
"Cat fanatics will love her stories of social climbing and her desire for the delightful Mr Kit-e-Licious. A proper little wannabe!" - Star Magazine
A small-town cat with a big-city attitude, Nancy knew from an early age that she wanted to be famous. Like many cats of her generation, she was seduced by the MIAOW (model, icon, actress or whatever) lifestyle, realising that she would be satisfied with nothing less than a life in the public eye after achieving her 15 minutes of fame with coverage in both the national and local press. Going back to her humdrum suburban life after this is simply not an option.
Sex & The Kitty charts Nancy's quest for fame and the high life and the friends she makes, loses and keeps along the way. She enters a cat show, sets up a Facebook page, tries poetry, acting and singing, stands as a local councillor and then realises that dating the local Member of Parliament's cat may be an easier route to building her profile. When it turns out that the MP's cat already has a wife and Nancy is simply one in a long line of mistresses, she decides that she must up her game and move to London. She secures herself a celebrity cat agent who opens all kinds of doors for her, culminating in a date with the world's number one cat actor, Baron Romeo III (aka The Baron) which is fixed up by the two cats' agents. This is it - they are going to be the Brad and Angelina of the cat world!
When the relationship doesn't work out, the pressures and disappointments of Nancy's celebrity life start to catch up with her and she realises that she has been neglecting those who really matter. How to juggle her media career and her home life? She has some serious choices to make.
Nancy's owner Melissa Tredinnick, who may or may not have given her a little help with the writing of her memoir, graduated in English Literature from University College London in 1996. She then worked in television production for 8 years, for companies including Tiger Aspect, Talkback Thames, and ITV. In 2003 she began a career break which lasted slightly longer than planned, and during which she produced two children (aged 6 and 4) and acquired two cats. She now spends most of her time acting as secretary, publicist and chauffeur for one of these cats. When she is not doing this she is a full-time mother. She lives with her cats, children and husband in Harpenden, and does not in any way resent the way her professional life has turned out.
