Jeoffry was a real cat who lived 250 years ago, confined to an
asylum with Christopher Smart, one of the most visionary poets of
the age. In exchange for love and companionship, Smart rewarded
Jeoffry with the greatest tribute to a feline ever written.
Prize-winning biographer Oliver Soden combines meticulous research
with passages of dazzling invention to recount the life of the cat
praised as 'a mixture of gravity and waggery'. The narrative roams
from the theatres and bordellos of Covent Garden to the cell where
Smart was imprisoned for mania. At once whimsical and profound,
witty and deeply moving, Soden's biography plays with the genre
like a cat with a toy. It tells the story of a poet and a poem,
while setting Jeoffry's life and adventures against the roaring
backdrop of eighteenth-century London.
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