title: Kit Kat and Lucy: The Country Cats Who Changed a City Girl's World
author: Lonnie Hull DuPont
description: &quot;Genuinely moving, poignant, hilarious (cue a mouse dropping from the ceiling), and ultimately compelling as Lonnie Hull DuPont experiences the sustaining power of love in furry form.&quot;--<b>Susy Flory</b>, author or coauthor of eleven books, including <i>Thunder Dog</i>, a <i>New York Times </i>bestseller<BR><BR><BR>After years of vibrant city life in San Francisco, Lonnie Hull DuPont reluctantly trades her three-room apartment on Telegraph Hill for a farmhouse in Michigan. She immediately misses the rhythm and the pace of the city, and the isolation of country living has her longing for something more.<BR><BR>Enter Kit Kat, an obsessive-compulsive tortoiseshell, and Lucy, a playful Russian Blue who can nail a bat right out of the air. These stray cats arrive a year apart and each ask to move into the farmhouse--and ultimately DuPont's heart. From the hysterical process of getting two strange cats to like each other to the exciting years of watching those cats thrive--and inspire DuPont in the process--this book is the heartwarming story of how one woman's world would never be the same.<BR><BR>&quot;An engaging story of an accidental cat owner. Been there. The prose was so funny, touching, and vivid, I felt like part of the family.&quot;--<b>Dusty Rainbolt</b>, former president of the Cat Writers Association and author of <i>Cat Scene Investigator: Solve Your Cat's Litter Box Mystery</i><BR><BR>&quot;My favorite glimpses of the holy come by way of thoughtful observance of the quotidian, honest sharing of a life, and simple, pure sentences--glimpses that come on little cat's feet, one might say. This delightful book is full of just those things.&quot;--<b>Robert Benson</b>, author of <i>Between the Dreaming and the Coming True</i>&nbsp;and <i>Punching Holes in the Dark</i>&nbsp;<BR><BR>&quot;I couldn't stop reading and, by the end, felt like I had a new best friend.&quot;--<b>Susan Logan-McCracken</b>, former editor of <i>Cat Fancy</i> magazine<BR><BR><BR><b>Lonnie Hull DuPont</b> is an award-winning poet, book editor, and writer. She is the author of several books, including five compilations of animal stories under the pseudonym of Callie Smith Grant. A member of the Cat Writers Association, she lives in rural Michigan with her husband and their cats.
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  Copyright © 2020 by Catharine Dobbs.
  
  
  
  
  
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  Contents
  
  
  [Chaptyer 1 A Life Changing Encounter](part0000_split_003.html#_Toc34467981)
  
  
  [Chapter 2