Making the Cat Laugh One Woman's Journal of Single Life on the Margins

For eighteen long years Lynne Truss has tried to make her cat laugh. It has been an uphill task, and this book is recognition of outstanding courage in the face of futility. This is a riotous collection of columns about single life, in which we discover a writer not only obsessed with her cats, but prone to over-reacting generally to news stories, shopping, passive smoking, Christmas, boyfriends, snails, sheds, and people who ask, How's the novel going.