Cat Sanctuary, the

Cat Sanctuary, the

A powerful and moving novel in which Patrick Gale casts a compassionate yet satirically sharp eye over the pains and abuses inflicted by families, friends and lovers.<br /> <br /> Judith and Deborah are sisters driven apart by traumatic events in their childhood, but thrown back together again when Deborah&#39;s diplomat husband is accidentally assassinated. Judith&#39;s lover, Joanna, the instigator of this awkward reunion, finds that as the sisters&#39; murky past is raked up, so too is her own, and the three women become embroiled in a tangle of passion and recrimination.