Amanda Lear's cats

<p>Amanda Lear has lived many lives - muse and singer painter and provocateur an eternal sphinx wrapped in sequins. But behind the stage lights and the immortal smile another tribe has always followed her: cats. Mysterious elegant anarchic. Her perfect doubles.</p><p>In this playful and insightful book Christian Soleil slips into the half-shadow where celebrity meets mythology. He collects anecdotes whispers and shimmering memories to sketch a gallery of feline companions who padded through the artist's apartments studios and decades. Each cat becomes a mirror revealing something of Lear's freedom humour and secret tenderness.</p><p>Part portrait part fable <em>Amanda Lear's Cats</em> is a celebration of eccentricity and affection - the story of a woman who reinvented herself endlessly and the creatures who accompanied her through every metamorphosis. A small book with a velvet paw and a sharp sparkle inviting the reader to curl up and purr along.</p>