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    A Street Cat Named Bob: And How He Saved My Life
    A Street Cat Named Bob: And How He Saved My Life
    A Street Cat Named Bob: And How He Saved My Life
    Audiobook6 hours

    A Street Cat Named Bob: And How He Saved My Life

    Written by James Bowen

    Narrated by Kristopher Milnes

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    James is a street musician struggling to make ends meet. Bob is a stray cat looking for somewhere warm to sleep. When James and Bob meet, they forge a never-to-be-forgotten friendship that has been charming readers from Thailand to Turkey. A Street Cat Named Bob is an international sensation, landing on the bestseller list in England for 52 consecutive weeks and selling in 26 countries around the world. Now, James and Bob are ready to share their true story with the U.S. in this tale unlike any you' ve ever read of a cat who possesses some kind of magic. When street musician James Bowen found an injured cat curled up in the hallway of his apartment building, he had no idea how much his life was about to change. James was living hand to mouth on the streets of London, barely making enough money to feed himself, and the last thing he needed was a pet. Yet James couldn't resist helping the strikingly intelligent but very sick animal, whom he named Bob. He slowly nursed Bob back to health and then sent the cat on his way, imagining that he would never see him again. But Bob had other ideas. Perfect for fans of Marley Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog and Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat That Changed the World, this instant classic about the power of love between man and animal has taken the world by storm and is guaranteed to be a huge hit with American fans as well.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateOct 4, 2013
    ISBN9781490601472
    Author

    James Bowen

    James Bowen is an expert in strategy and organisational design and a performance consultant with over 15 years of advisory experience. Over the course of his career, James has worked with executive teams of blue-chip companies on a range of engagements with the achievement of step-change performance improvement as their common goal. James is also Managing Director of Kotinos Partners, which is a consultancy that focuses on helping CEOs and Leadership teams deliver sustained high performance.

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    • 5/5
      Loved this..narrator was excellent..story was so heartwarming and also well told
    • 5/5
      What made this book so great was the relationship between Bob the cat and the author. Once James chose to be responsible for Bob, the need to make a living legally and the desire to get clean, joined forces to improve the quality of their lives as a team. Their mutual affection and loyalty to one another is easily felt by anyone with a similar relationship with a pet. I love the fact that the rescued each other and James got clean for love of Bob.
    • 5/5
      Fantastic book. I found the movie on YouTube and watched it then looked for the book. As usual, the book is filled with far more details. Looking forward to reading the next one by the author.
    • 5/5
      perfect book
      i liked the plot
      my respect to james
    • 1/5
      Easy read, not that dramatic as made out to be by a colleague.
    • 4/5
      Such a sweet book! Bob is awesome and you can't help but wish James the very best.
    • 5/5
      THE simply most beautiful and heart-warming story I've ever read is about a stray cat and a 'stray' man finding each other in the streets of London and how they help each other. A story of an extraordinary friendship. Someone said on the net, it's a love story and it is.
    • 4/5
      So enjoyed this story of a young homeless man living on the streets of London with a ginger tabby. In this true biography, James, addicted to heroin, tells how he was `invisible' when he was homeless, and the difference it made when he found Bob and took him busking with him. Now the busy tourist and neighbors - the public - saw James, chatted with him, actually felt something for him. Bob, the cat, humanised the man who was with him, and helped James turn his life around. Being a Bristish book, I found the different use of words very interesting. James simple and "honest" approach of the story was refreshing. The overall point being how profoundly James life was saved, maybe? or turned around by this personable feline and yes Bob's life was enriched as well.
    • 4/5
      Very cute, wish I could meet Bob the Cat. This was a good animal book to read because Bob is still alive, so there wasn't any tear-jerking death scene to read through. It was stressful when Bob ran away a couple times when something scared him. It's a miracle James was able to find him both times.