Life And Times Of Bester Boo Boo by the author of A Land Remembered

In this short story, Bester Boo Boo regales us with a first hand account of the adventures of a scruffy alley-cat who has his adoptive family wrapped around his finger, er paw. Mischievous and a bit too wise for his own good, Bester lives the good life until his curiosity gets the better of him.

Told in a classic Patrick Smith narrative, this whimsical tale reads like a children's story. In fact, the character of Bester Boo Boo was based on his family's pet cat of the same name and was written with his children in mind. You can see in this story the pleasure he took in writing and the seeds for his future literary works, most notably his best known novels, Forever Island and A Land Remembered.