Making the Cat Laugh

One woman''s journal of single life on the margins.A brilliant collection of Lynne Truss- journalism - recording the life of a metropolitan refugee from coupledom. The alternative -Bridget Jones-.For seven long years, starting in -The Listener- in 1988 and continuing in -The Times- and -Woman''s Journal-, Lynne Truss has been trying to make her cat laugh. It has been an uphill task, which is why she deserves this book, a recognition of outstanding courage in the face of futility. Along the way, ''Margins'', ''Single of Life'' and ''One Woman''s Journal'' have collected a band of devoted fans, yet still the cat remains unimpressed.Never have so many jokes about Kitbits been found in such concentration as in -Making the Cat Laugh-. But under the headings such as ''The Single Woman Considers Going Out but Doesn''t Fancy the Hassle'' and ''The Single Woman Stays at Home and Goes Quietly Mad'', we discover a writer not only obsessed with cats, but prone to over-reacting generally - to news