Lara The Runaway Cat - One cat's journey to discover home is where the heart is

Lara the Runaway Cattells the story of Gobi, the loveable pup who followed Dion Leonard across a gruelling 155-mile trek across the Gobi Desert, and her mischievous cat sister, Lara, who runs away from her family, seeking a courageous adventure and different life.

About the author

Dion Leonard is an Australian who lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. He has competed in some of the world’s toughest ultra marathons across inhospitable landscapes including running across the brutal Moroccan Sahara desert twice in the 250km Marathon Des Sables and twice across South Africa's Kalahari Desert. Dion's latest race across the Gobi Desert in China turned out to be extraordinary. He fell in love with a stray dog that followed him during the week, changing both of their lives forever.

Sophie Pembroke has been dreaming, reading and writing romance ever since she read her first Mills & Boon novel as a teen, so getting to write romance fiction for a living is a dream come true! Born in Abu Dhabi, Sophie grew up in Wales and now lives in Herfordshire with her scientist husband, her incredibly imaginative daughter and her adventurous, adorable little boy. In Sophie's world, happy is for ever after, everything stops for tea and there's always time for one more page.

Summary

Lara the Runaway Cat tells the story of Gobi, the loveable pup who followed Dion Leonard across a gruelling 155-mile trek across the Gobi Desert, and her mischievous cat sister, Lara, who runs away from her family, seeking a courageous adventure and different life.

Product details

• Authors: Dion Leonard, Dion Pembroke Leonard, Leonard Dion, Sophie Pembroke
• Publisher: Element Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9780008316273
• ISBN: 978-0-00-831627-3
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic; Adventure, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Biography & True Stories, PETS / Cats / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, HUMOR / Topic / Animals, PETS / Dogs / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers, Memoirs, Travel writing, Animals & society, Wildlife: general interest, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, Domestic animals & pets, Domestic animals and pets, Animal life stories, Mother’s Day, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Adventure / action fiction