After Cleo: Came Jonah (Cleo #2) by Helen Brown

Some say your previous cat chooses their successor. If so, what in heaven's name had Helen Brown's beloved Cleo been thinking when she sent a crazy kitten like Jonah?

When Cleo died, Helen Brown swore she'd never get another cat. But after she was diagnosed with breast cancer a feisty kitten called Jonah came into her life.

Like Cleo, Jonah possessed great energy and charm. But unlike Cleo, he often morphed into a highly strung and capricious escape artist. Still, as Helen recovered from a mastectomy, he also proved to be a healer in his own right.

While struggling to deal with her own mortality, Helen helped organise her son Rob's wedding, completed her international bestseller, Cleo, and was confronted with her daughter Lydia's desire to abandon university and become a Buddhist nun in war-torn Sri Lanka. Lydia's yearning for a spiritual life was matched only by Jonah's yearning to be an outdoor cat in a decidedly indoor-cat neighbourhood.

After Cleo is a warm, wise and often funny account of the highs and lows of mother-daughter relationships, the impact of a potentially life-threatening illness, and an often kooky - some might say deranged - cat called Jonah.