In Tokyo — one of the world’s largest megacities — a stray cat is wending her way through the back alleys. And, with each detour, she brushes up against the seemingly disparate lives of the city-dwellers, connecting them in unexpected ways. But the city is changing.

As it does, it pushes her to the margins where she chances upon a series of apparent strangers — from a homeless man squatting in an abandoned hotel, to a shut-in hermit afraid to leave his house, to a convenience store worker searching for love. The cat orbits Tokyo’s denizens, drawing them ever closer.

This book was a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick.

We have five copies of ‘The Cat and the City’ to give away.