There is a cat called Pearl whose story is whirling across Hawke’s Bay as local businesses, communities, schools, libraries and charitable foundations get in behind her.
Pearl’s stoic survival during Cyclone Gabrielle, perched on the top of a desk in the now red-stickered home of the Bowkett’s at Puketapu, is at the centre of a children’s book written by local author Catherine Robertson and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand.
