A darkly comic novel with observations about modern cultural preoccupations, such as the growing influence of the Internet on teenagers' mindset and behaviour and the tourist money and decay in British seaside towns.

"The towns are realistically and atmospherically evoked, along with the politics, rivalries, and power play between the domestic animals and seagulls, which are harshly depicted but entertaining."

A seagull in an English seaside town acquires a taste for hunting and killing cats. Embarking on a killing spree, the bird inadvertently adds to an adolescent boy’s woes while causing paranoia in local cats.