A Midwinter's Tail

A town in need.
An extraordinary cat.
A season for miracles...

It''s nearly Christmas and committed Londoner, Mina Kestle, is close to signing a deal that will make her career and give her everything she''s ever wanted. And then she receives a mysterious letter in the post along with an ancient key, sent by her long-estranged godfather . . .

Davy Penhallow is an artist who lives on the tiny Cornish island of Morgelyn with only his pet cat, Murr, for company. Mina hasn''t seen or heard from him in decades, but now it seems he wants her to look after his cottage - and his cat - while he recovers from a stroke in hospital. Mina doesn''t know why Davy has written after all these years, but she intends to do what''s right: sort out the cottage and the cat and then get back to London in time for her career-saving meeting, before everything she''s built comes crashing down around her.

But the more time Mina spends in the