The Most Expensive Alley Cat in London
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A DESPERATE URCHIN. A MYSTERIOUS STRAY. SALVATION...OR DEATH?
Young Serapia Ravena is living rough on the streets of old London, along with her little dragon-like pet, Raven. Starving and desperate after a near-fatal illness, Serapia is delighted to find the meal she so desperately needs to survive—even if it’s just a skinny white alley cat. But nothing about this cat is as she expects. It may provide a very different means of deliverance—or doom.
If you love tales of good and evil, compassion and survival, secret agents and dragonets, you’ll love this heart-warming short story in the tradition of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. ‘The Most Expensive Alley Cat in London’ is a standalone short story related to the novel ‘Elfling,’ Winner of the 2019 ‘Teen’ CPA Book Award.
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Corinna Turner
Corinna Turner has been writing since she was fourteen and likes strong protagonists with plenty of integrity. She has an MA in English from Oxford University, but has foolishly gone on to work with both children and animals! Juggling work with the disabled and being a midwife to sheep, she spends as much time as she can in a little hut at the bottom of the garden, writing.She is a Catholic Christian with roots in the Methodist and Anglican churches. A keen cinema-goer, she lives in the UK with her Giant African Land Snail, Peter, who has a six inch long shell and an even larger foot!
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The Most Expensive Alley Cat in London - Corinna Turner
PRAISE FOR CORINNA TURNER’S BOOKS
LIBERATION: nominated for the Carnegie Medal Award 2016
ELFLING: 1st prize, Teen Fiction, CPA Book Awards 2019
I AM MARGARET & BANE’S EYES: finalists, CALA Award 2016/2018
LIBERATION & THE SIEGE OF REGINALD HILL: 3rd place, CPA Book Awards 2016/2019
PRAISE FOR ELFLING
I was instantly drawn in.
EOIN COLFER, author of the Artemis Fowl books
Extremely imaginative and unique, her characters so colorful and satisfying, and you just don't want to put the book down.
T.M. GAOUETTE, author of the Faith and Kung Fu series
This book was very different from a lot of fairy tales in a good way.
WILLIAM SULLIVAN
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THE MOST EXPENSIVE ALLEY CAT IN LONDON
A Short Story
CORINNA TURNER
Copyright 2020 Corinna Turner
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Contents
The Most Expensive Alley Cat in London
ELFLING Sneak Peek
Other Books by Corinna Turner
About the Author
Boring Legal Bit
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THE MOST EXPENSIVE ALLEY CAT IN LONDON
Whitish-grey and limping, the cat made its unsteady way over the slippery cobbles.
What do you think?
I murmured to Raven as she peeped out of my jerkin, her paws—and tiny claws—clinging to the collar, her undeveloped wings pressing against my neck.
Her tiny ears were cocked towards the cat, but they flicked downwards as my stomach rumbled. Amazing it could still rumble. After going without food for this long, it usually fell into a deathly silence. ‘Deathly’ silence being aptly named. The fever had left me so weak that...that even the old white cat might prove a challenge. But it might be my last chance of survival.
Raven gave an encouraging peep, nodding her grey head at me, then rubbing her soft leathery cheek against my neck. My little pet was clearly an exotic creature from across the seas, but how she had come to hatch in an inn fireplace in cold, wet London was a mystery I didn’t bother to ponder. In appearance, she looked like nothing so much as...well, as a baby dragon, truth be told...but, no doubt, she was just an exotic creature. Best to believe she was. Risky and dangerous enough for a young urchin girl to keep an exotic pet, let alone...
Argh! My slow thoughts were wandering as my starving brain lost its grasp on priorities. The cat had moved further down the street. I stumbled to my feet, almost