For as long as she can remember, Cat has been blissfully happy living with her grandmother - a famous psychiatrist who chain-smokes and rides a Harley Davidson. She calls her "Granny the Pag" a name made up in childhood when she couldn't spell 'pig', but which has now come to mean someone powerful and clever. When Cat's parents decide that at long last they want her to live with them, she has to fight as cunningly as any Pag to stay where she is.

 

This book features in the following series: New Century Readers, New Longman Literature 11-14 .

. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.

There are 192 pages in this book. This book was published 1999 by Pearson Education Limited .

Nina Bawden won the Guardian Award for The Peppermint Pig. Her bestselling novel, Carrie's War, has been adapted for both stage and TV.