Matthew Flinders' Cat

Matthew Flinders' Cat is a 2002 novel by Bryce Courtenay. It records the relationship between a homeless former lawyer and alcoholic, and a young skateboard riding boy with a troubled background, who slowly bond over tales of Matthew Flinders and "Trim", a cat who travelled with him on his voyage to explore Australia.


Famous quotes containing the words cat and/or matthew:

    “For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.
    For he is the servant of the Living God, duly and daily serving him.
    For at the first glance of the glory of God in the East he worships
    in his way.
    For is this done by wreathing his body seven times round with
    elegant quickness.”
    —Christopher Smart (1722–1771)

    “He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was famished.”
    —Bible: New Testament, Matthew 4:2.