Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban Paperback Book 9780241485767

Wonderful lifesaving places Russell Hoban among the greatest timeless novelists The TimesBorn to swim thousands of miles in the ocean the giant sea turtles are now trapped in a tank of goldengreen water at London Zoo But not for much longer Two lonely people a bookseller and a childrens illustrator have begun thinking turtle thoughts As they come together to hatch a plan to release the turtles into the sea their diaries reveal how they find their own lives changing in imperceptible and quite unintended waysCrackles with witty detail mordant intelligence and selfdeprecating irony TimeThis lovely human fable seems to me one of the best things of its kind a fine and touching achievement John Fowles