Brown, Helen. Cleo : how a small black cat helped heal a family, Crows Nest, Sydney : Arena, 2010.

Helen Brown, was a full time feature writer for the Sunday Star Times in Auckland, New Zealand and is a best-selling author.  Brown has written this book based on her experiences of life after terrible tragedy and living with an uppity little kitten called Cleo. This book deals with the complex emotions of grief and how some animals, in particular Cleo can help a family and bring them a sense of hope.  Cleo takes on the healing of the family and distracts them from grieving through her antics and her ability to make them laugh and love again.  This book is rich in wisdom, wit, heart, and healing, a story of a cat with an extraordinary gift for knowing just where she was needed most and will not only appeal to the fans of animal biographies  but also to general biography readers.

There is a second book written by Helen Brown called ‘After Cleo : came Jonah’, which follows on after her first book ‘Cleo’. Also a wonderful read.

Cleo : how a small black cat helped heal a family is on the bestseller list for:- The Times (London) and the New York Times, and is recommended by Library Journal.