Special thanks are due to Mark Allan for the help he kindly gave in sharing Facebook posts, photos and statistics, and for his own interview too.
I’d also like to thank Fi Crosby, Amy McWalters, Zennor Compton, Jennie Roman and all the team at Penguin for supporting Felix’s second book of adventures.
For background research, I am indebted to the Manchester and Salford RSPCA, the Huddersfield Examiner, the British Transport Police, Vets4Pets.com, Cats.org.uk, Consciouscat.net, VCAHospitals.com, PetBucket.com, CureToday.com, Cuteness.com, the BBC News website and Felix’s Facebook page. I also consulted Huddersfield Through Time by Paul Chrystal (Amberley Publishing, 2016) and Huddersfield: Home Town Memories by Melvyn Briggs and John Watson (The Derby Books Publishing Company Ltd, 2011).
Finally, I couldn’t have written this book without the enduring support and encouragement of my husband, Duncan Moore, to whom I remain forever grateful.
Last but by no means least, thank you to Felix, the Huddersfield station cat, and to little Bolt, her brand-new apprentice – whose arrival towards the end of the writing of this book made for quite the literary challenge, but a rather lovely one at that!
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Written by Kate Moore www.kate-moore.com
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Cover photo © Rachel Oates with additional images © Alamy (hat) and © Shutterstock (tag)
1, 3, 4, 5, 13, 14 © Alan Hind; 2, 6, 12, 20 © Angie Hunte; 7 © Amy McWalters and Rob Martin; 8, 9 © Amy McWalters and Rachel Oates; 10 © Sara Jones; 11, 19 © Rachel Oates; 15 © Helen Lear; 16, 17 © Angela Dunn; 18 © Amy McWalters
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