LIBRARY UP LATE: Kim Kelly launches The Rat Catcher at Cowra Library

Central West Libraries

**Postponed **Join local author Kim Kelly when she launches The Rat Catcher at Cowra Library

Cowra Library

**Please note this event has been postponed**In the sweltering summer of 1900, young wharf labourer Patrick O’Reilly is down on his luck in the slums of Sydney and homesick for Tralee. When a deadly outbreak of plague descends on the city, O’Reilly’s daydreaming mind is miles away – in the golden hair and kindly, confident air of a girl called Rosie Hughes.Just as he’s wondering why any girl would want a no-hoper like him, opportunity knocks with the offer of a job as a rat catcher working for the city’s Plague Department, containing the spread of disease. But the job will bring him a lot more than a pay rise and a swift education on traps and poisons.In the Public Lending Library, on the top floor of the Queen Victoria Building, above the bustling centre of Sydney, he comes face-to-face with a legendary rat called Old Scratch who will change the way he understands himself and the world forever.Drawn from Kim Kelly’s own trove of Irish-Australian family lore, The Rat Catcher: A Love Story is a mischievous, fast-paced fable told with her trademark compassion, a sharp eye on the epic in the ordinary, and an irrepressible love for life, in all its marvellous forms.Praise for The Rat Catcher: A Love Story:‘Kelly’s elegant storytelling is full of wit and wisdom’ – Wendy James ‘told with sparkling humour reminiscent of Peter Carey’ – Alison Booth‘a delightful and heart-warming tale’ – Mary-Lou Stephens

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