Turtle Diary Av Russell Hoban

<p><b>''Wonderful, life-saving ... places Russell Hoban among the greatest, timeless novelists'' <i>The Times</i></b><br><br>Born 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.<br><br><b>''Crackles with witty detail, mordant intelligence and self-deprecating irony'' <i>Time</i><br><br>''This lovely human fable seems to me one of the best things of its kind - a fine and touching achievement'' John Fowles</b></p>