Doris Lessing 
Old Woman and Her Cat [EPUB ebook] 

From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing, a short story about a woman’s gradual drift outside the limits of society.An old woman, with gipsy blood, begins to find the conventions of society stifling — when her husband dies, and her children leave home, she embraces a marginal, unconventional existence, accompanied by her faithful cat.’An Old Woman and Her Cat’ brilliantly combines Doris Lessing’s unforgiving examination of our society — and those it cannot accommodate and ulitmately fails — with a wonderful portrait of her favourite animal — the cat.This story also appears in the collection The Temptation of Jack Orkney.