Author: Robina Williams
ISBN: 1931201544 

At a rural friary in Britain, Brother Jerome slips and cracks his head open on
the gravestone of Brother Aloysius. Jerome is killed instantly. When he wakes
up, he is not in Heaven, but alone in a gray, featureless sort of place. The
first person he meets is Brother Aloysius, who apologizes for the circumstances
of Jerome's death. Jerome eventually meets up with all the dead Brothers of the
friary. The "leader" or "guide" of the group is Leo, an orange tabby cat who
wandered into the friary one day and made himself at home. In the other world,
Leo is named Quant, short for Quantum, and can talk. Jerome realizes that
Leo/Quant is not your average cat, if he can move between dimensions with no
trouble at all.

Meantime, back at the friary, Brother Fidelis, the "boss" of the friary, has
been spending a lot of time with a middle age woman new to the parish. When men
become friars later in life, some are good at keeping their religious vows while
others are not so good at it. By this time, Jerome has made a few visits back to
the friary. He makes contact with one of the living friars, and is asked if he
could possibly find himself inside the woman's cottage while Fidelis is there;
just for a peek, of course. He does, and finds a totally innocent scene of two
people at lunch. Whether or not Jerome can be seen by the living friars on his
walks around the friary seems to depend on the cat, Leo/Quant. A lot of things
seem to depend on that dimension-hopping cat.

This is a very "quiet" novel (set at a friary, there will not be much in the way
of action). It has little bits of weirdness here and there that will keep the
reader interested. This belongs in that large gray area of Pretty Good or Worth
Reading.

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