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Turtle Diary

`Wonderful, life-saving … 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 golden-green water at London Zoo. But not for much longer. Two lonely people, a bookseller and a children`s 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 ways.`Crackles with witty detail, mordant intelligence and self-deprecating irony` Time`This lovely human fable seems to me one of the best things of its kind – a fine and touching achievement` John Fowles