The Wild Road

If Watership Down is a fantasy novel about talking rabbits, this is a fantasy novel about talking cats. Written by [a:M. John Harrison 10765 M. John Harrison http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1277603037p2/10765.jpg] under a pseudonym, it's a grown-up fairy-tale, interwoven with dark magic, deep meaning, and characters who are somehow both entirely believable and indisputably feline. It's epic and sad and beautiful and true. Reminds me of [a:Neil Gaiman 1221698 Neil Gaiman http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1234150163p2/1221698.jpg] more than any of Harrison's SF books do.