Bono: The Rescue Cat Who Helped Me Find My Way Home

By: Helen Brown

Narrated by: Heather Bolton

Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins

Publisher's Summary

From New York Times best-selling author Helen Brown comes a funny and moving account of her life-changing month as a foster mother - to a homeless cat named Bono. 

After a brush with cancer, Helen Brown, happily married for 22 years and with three grown children, took stock of her comfortable suburban life and found it wanting. Seizing the day, she headed to New York, the city that never sleeps, where she was talked into fostering Bono, a rescue cat in need of a forever home. 

Together, cat and woman discovered that, in the end, home is where the heart is, wherever that may be. In the tradition of Helen Brown's international best seller Cleo, which has sold more than two million copies worldwide, Bono is a funny, tender and insightful story about life, love and recovery - and a charismatic cat with rock-star looks and a big heart.

©2018 Helen Brown (P)2018 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

A Story About The Writer, Not So Much The Cat

I adore cats, and I love reading/listening to stories about extraordinary cats and their owners. Dewy, Homer, Bob, etc. This book I found to be a huge letdown though. To me, if it were properly titled and advertised it would have a picture of a crochety old lady on the front, and the text on the cover would read:

"How a selfish, whiny, pampered elderly lady discovered how bad a cat owner she is, but at least made a minimal effort to find a cat a much better home".

Because that is actually what the book is about. The actual book deals very little with Bono (the cat). We get chapter after chapter about herself, her husband, her daughter, their lavish trip to New York City, the plays and musicals that they saw, their clothing shopping, their fine dining, the people that they met, and on and on and on, with only very small snippets about Bono in between all the nonsense. Then she tacks on an ending and all this phony baloney reflection on how much the cat changed her life, blah blah blah, which rings completely hollow since she couldn't even be bothered at the time to properly bond with him, with figuring out how to give him his medicine, or even put in a legit effort to try to find him a new home, without complaining and whining about having to do it.

Yuck. Pass on this one, there are way better stories about people who genuinely do have legit stories about their extraordinary cats, and the efforts and sacrifices that they've made to keep their cats living a great life.

Bono A Rescue Cat

Wonderful story of a human and Bono (a rescue cat) how they saved each other