The Cat Did It

A twisted tale of escape from brutal hoodlums by Claude Beccai

Through a chance encounter triggered by a stray cat, two elderly women are on the run. Rogue witnesses to a violent crime, Clara, a cantankerous opinionated loner, and Cynthia, an enthusiastic socialite, team up to evade psychotic murderers as well as the police. Along the journey, on the West Coast of British Columbia, Canada, Clara meets people who definitively shatter the protective shell she had created around herself. Forced into this adventure kicking and sometimes screaming, she must learn to open up and realize that she still has an important role to play in the world around her in spite of and/or because of her age. She might not have fast legs but she certainly can largely compensate with her wagging, outrageous and sharp tongue. Unconventional, funny, scathing, but also gentle and even sexy at times she bites into life with an energy and gusto that could challenge that of women half her age.

Claude Beccai

Claude Beccai is an inveterate story-teller. She has spun yarns since early childhood to spruce up the truth or to give it a twist to capture an audience at odds with reality. As a long time teacher, her gift to arrange facts has served her well with a broad variety of often reluctant students of all ages, background and mixed abilities. Most of her tales have been delivered orally. She has also been involved in live theater where she is known to have belted, off-key, absurd and outrageous lines. She now lives in Vancouver, Canada where she pursues a complex career of grandmother for two lovely girls, a trekker on well-paved paths and a loiterer at public libraries. Lately she has decided to put down in writing some of her tales. She was born quite some time ago and she is not dead yet. Untruth pays off.