Monty: Biography of a Marmalade Cat

by Derek Tangye

Author Derek Tangye-- reluctant to describe himself as a writer, his simple literary style had appeal to a wide range of people who yearned to escape urban and suburban drudgery. His books described the life growing potatoes and flowers (predominantly daffodils) on a cliff top smallholding in far west Cornwall. The donkeys and cats on their tiny farm all became "characters" in his books, and fans made a 'pilgrimage' from around the world, all eager to share their own rustic dream. This book is focused on the life story of Monty. A marmalade barn cat translated into words and made immortal by D. Tangle.

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1962

About the author

During WWII, Derek Tangye worked for MI5 (the U.K.'s domestic counter-intelligence and security agency) and, after the war, he worked as a newspaper columnist. His wife, Jeannie Nicol Tangye, was a hotel PR executive. They both left their jobs in the city to move to a simple cottage on a flower farm in Cornwall.