{"id":60426,"date":"2025-08-12T00:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T00:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/60426\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T00:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T00:55:08","slug":"book-review-a-cats-lesson-mr-perkins-goes-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/60426\/","title":{"rendered":"Book review: &#8216;A Cat\u2019s Lesson: Mr Perkins Goes to School&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Cat\u2019s Lesson: Mr Perkins Goes to School\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Suzanne Stephenson<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a38.99, Mirador Publishing<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2729<\/p>\n<p>This is another charming tale of how pets make a home, office or life complete. It is at one level a story about pets and the effect they have on people \u2013 with a few lawyers sorting out legal problems.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A mysterious black cat with yellow eyes always seems to turn up at the right moment. This one finds some missing, vital deeds. (I wish I could get my cats to do that.) This book is partly about communication, how animals can pick up on things that we miss and how they can understand us.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"picture\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A Cats Lesson Mr Perkins Goes\u00a0to School\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/124621_acatslessonmrperkinsgoestoschool_674010.jpg\"  loading=\"eager\" class=\"lazyloaded\" width=\"297\" height=\"445\"\/><\/p>\n<p>There are lovely illustrations drawn by the author, which capture the character of the animals who are the story\u2019s heroes. She is Suzanne Stephenson, who had a lengthy legal career as a solicitor and then a district judge, sitting on family and civil cases in North London and latterly North Lincolnshire. Suzanne inherited an interest in rural life from her late father, a Holocaust survivor, who found work with the National Farmers\u2019 Union when she was a small child.<\/p>\n<p>She has always wanted to write and enjoyed painting and sketching. Her previous works include The World According to Patrick White, the tale of a lawyer who has a talking pig, and Mr Perkins Takes Charge, which tells what happens when a black cat marches into a solicitors\u2019 office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There is a serious side, with information in the book on pet and animal charities, and assistance and emotional support animals. A treat for animal lovers of all kinds, legal and not legal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>David Pickup is a partner at Pickup &amp; Scott Solicitors, Aylesbury<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Cat\u2019s Lesson: Mr Perkins Goes to School\u00a0 \u00a0 Suzanne Stephenson \u00a0 \u00a38.99, Mirador Publishing \u00a0 \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2729 This&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[457,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-60426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}