Matthew Flinders' cat
By: Bryce Courtenay.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Camberwell, Vic; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 610
Subjects: Street life -- Fiction.; Homeless persons -- Fiction.; Alcoholics -- Fiction.; Boys -- Fiction.; Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Bill O'Shannessy, once a prominent barrister, is now on the street where he sleeps on a bench outside the State Library. Above him on the window sill rests a bronze statue of Matthew Flinder's cat, Trim. Ryan is a ten-year-old street kid heading for all the usual trouble. The two meet and form an unlikely friendship