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A deceptively simple and poetic picture book about a cat who leads the neighbourhood dogs on a merry chase to the park and back. Henry, a rather superior sort of cat, defies and confounds all the dogs and remains supremely unruffled by his chaotic encounters with them.

What Is She Doing Here? is a memoir of the five years Kate Clanchy spent living closely with Antigona, a Kosovan refugee. Antigona becomes her project, her protegee, her cleaner, her nanny, and slowly, through hours of conversation and negotiations of difference, her friend. Through the story of their growing understanding is woven the dramatic tale of Antigona's great escape - from Milosevic, from her forced, violent marriage, and from the most traditional pastoral society in Europe - and the growing toll of her losses, as she and her rebellious teenage daughters negotiate London. Antigona's wit and vertiginous perspectives on contemporary life illuminate and transform the way Kate thinks, bringing many hard truths uncomfortably close to home.