Stuart Julia The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise 9780307476913

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Автор: Stuart Julia
Название: The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise
Перевод названия: Джулия Стюарт: Башня, зоопарк, черепаха
ISBN: 9780307476913
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Классификация: ISBN-10: 030747691X
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 320
Вес: 0.25 кг.
Дата издания: 23.08.2011
Язык: English
Размер: 202 x 134 x 20
Поставляется из: США
Описание: Brimming with charm and whimsy, this national bestseller set in the Tower of London has the transportive qualities and delightful magic of the contemporary classics Chocolat and Amelie.

Balthazar Jones has lived in the Tower of London with his loving wife, Hebe, and his 120-year-old pet tortoise for the past eight years. Thats right, he is a Beefeater (they really do live there). Its no easy job living and working in the tourist attraction in present-day London.

Among the eccentric characters who call the Towers maze of ancient buildings and spiral staircases home are the Towers Rack & Ruin barmaid, Ruby Dore, who just found out shes pregnant; portly Valerie Jennings, who is falling for ticket inspector Arthur Catnip; the lifelong bachelor Reverend Septimus Drew, who secretly pens a series of principled erot-ica; and the philandering Ravenmaster, aiming to avenge the death of one of his insufferable ravens.

When Balthazar is tasked with setting up an elaborate menagerie within the Tower walls to house the many exotic animals gifted to the Queen, life at the Tower gets all the more interest-ing. Penguins escape, giraffes are stolen, and the Komodo dragon sends innocent people running for their lives. Balthazar is in charge and things are not exactly running smoothly. Then Hebe decides to leave him and his beloved tortoise runs away.

Filled with the humor and heart that calls to mind the delight-ful novels of Alexander McCall Smith, and the charm and beauty of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise is a magical, wholly origi-nal novel whose irresistible characters will stay with you long after you turn the stunning last page.

The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise, Stuart Julia