A heartwarming tale of courage and warmth, set against the backdrop of the second world war, about a cat who survives against the odds.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomething\u2019s up. Something big too, very big. At school, in the village, whoever you meet, it\u2019s all anyone talks about. It\u2019s like a sudden curse has come down on us all. It makes me wonder if we\u2019ll ever see the sun again.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s 1943, and Lily Tregenze lives on a farm, in the idyllic seaside village of Slapton. Apart from her father being away, and the \u2018townie\u2019 evacuees at school, her life is scarcely touched by the war. Until one day, Lily and her family, along with 3000 other villagers, are told to move out of their homes \u2013 lock, stock and barrel.<\/p>\n
Soon, the whole area is out of bounds, as the Allied forces practise their landings for D-day, preparing to invade France. But Tips, Lily\u2019s adored cat, has other ideas \u2013 barbed wire and keep-out signs mean nothing to her, nor does the danger of guns and bombs. Frantic to find her, Lily makes friends with two young American soldiers, who promise to help her. But will she ever see her cat again? Lily decides to cross the wire into the danger zone to look for Tips herself\u2026<\/p>\n
Now, many years later, as Michael is reading his Grandma Lily\u2019s diary, he learns about The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips \u2013 and wonders how one adventurous cat could still affect their lives sixty years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A heartwarming tale of courage and warmth, set against the backdrop of the second world war, about a cat who survives against the odds.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomething\u2019s up. Something big too, very big. At school, in the village, whoever you meet, it\u2019s all anyone talks about. It\u2019s like a sudden curse has come down on us all. It makes me wonder if we\u2019ll ever see the sun again.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s 1943, and Lily Tregenze lives on a farm, in the idyllic seaside village of Slapton. Apart from her father being away, and the \u2018townie\u2019 evacuees at school, her life is scarcely touched by the war. Until one day, Lily and her family, along with 3000 other villagers, are told to move out of their homes \u2013 lock, stock and barrel.<\/p>\n
Soon, the whole area is out of bounds, as the Allied forces practise their landings for D-day, preparing to invade France. But Tips, Lily\u2019s adored cat, has other ideas \u2013 barbed wire and keep-out signs mean nothing to her, nor does the danger of guns and bombs. Frantic to find her, Lily makes friends with two young American soldiers, who promise to help her. But will she ever see her cat again? Lily decides to cross the wire into the danger zone to look for Tips herself\u2026<\/p>\n
Now, many years later, as Michael is reading his Grandma Lily\u2019s diary, he learns about The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips \u2013 and wonders how one adventurous cat could still affect their lives sixty years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"content-type":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[378],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-6973","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-novel","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple","add-to-wishlist-after_add_to_cart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksaves.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/6973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksaves.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksaves.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksaves.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksaves.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksaves.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksaves.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=6973"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksaves.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=6973"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksaves.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=6973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}