Sandy Wilson

[from dust jacket flap] Once in a generation, somewhere in the world, a young man emerges with all the talents of entertainment in high measure. Sandy Wilson is undoubtedly such a phenomenon. He wrote the book, the lyrics and the music of The Boy Friend, the most successful musical comedy London has known for many years. Now he has written, and drawn fifty-four illustrations for, a book which places him at once in the front rank of humorous authors and artists.

This is Sylvia is like no other book. Sylvia is Sandy Wilson's cat. Or is she? For Sylvia is all that was ever meant by the successful musical comedy star of the 30's and 40's, of doubtful parentage but undoubted talents, innocent of learning but womanly wise, simple of soul, popular, beautiful. Her memoirs flow easily through the life of fashionable London, of Hollywood and Monte Carlo, the gossip columns and marriage into the aristocracy. She has known everybody -- but everybody -- in the theatrical and literary world.

But Sylvia also has nine lives and a family of three kittens. Through her pages are scattered sketches of elegant cats which take on strangely the fashions and the personalities of each decade -- and immediately we are detached and laughing at the foibles of our age, entertained by delicious satire, enchanted by the brilliance of the new star -- Sandy Wilson.