A review by scaifea
One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox

4.0

A quiet but powerful story of a boy who gets an air gun for his birthday, possibly accidentally (or not) injures a cat with it, and then spends the winter months doing his own private penance for it but trying to care for the cat. This main thread is supplemented by others that are equally good: his mother suffers from a debilitating illness that keeps Ned worried, and there’s also the friendship between him and an old man who lives nearby. The different parts of the story are woven together by their (and Ned’s) back-of-the-mind whispers of mortality while also all being celebrations, of a sort, of live. A good one, this.