Mickey: The cat who helped me through times of change, from the bestselling author of CLEO and BONOFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Cleo, a warm, wistful coming of age true story about the transition from childhood to adolescence, and the small stray cat who helped guide the way. It was 1966 and the times they were a changing, even in the provincial New Zealand coastal town of New Plymouth. Skirts were getting shorter, the Vietnam War was on TV every night and French nuclear tests in the Pacific turned the night sky a violent red.