Full Steam Ahead, Felix

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‘I have just finished reading this delightful story, written with great warmth and humour by Kate Moore, who has captured the essence of this fantastic feline and her warm-hearted friends’

‘A lovely story about a world-famous, floofy cat’

‘A heart-warming tale, demonstrating, without a doubt, the amazing intelligence and empathy of cats’

‘A sweet and gentle read. Cat lovers will thoroughly enjoy it’

1. Rise and Shine

At precisely 5 a.m. the first shafts of sunlight spilled across St George’s Square. A summer’s day was dawning in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, in July 2016.

The light was muted at that early hour, gently illuminating the bronze statue that stood in the square’s centre and the figures who topped the surrounding buildings: the trident-wielding Lady Britannia and the curly-maned big cat who stalked on the rooftop of the Lion Building. That striking structure was Grade II-listed, but that wasn’t unusual in this historic town: Huddersfield was home to over 200 listed buildings – the most in Yorkshire – and each of them was bathed in ever-increasing brightness as the sun began to climb higher in the sky.

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