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The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise

Julia Stuart

Hardcover | Pages: 304 pages

Rating: 3.58 | 9045 Users | 1753 Reviews

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Original Title:	The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise
ISBN:	0385533284 (ISBN13: 9780385533287)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Balthazar Jones, Hebe Jones, Reverand Septimus Drew
Setting:	London, England(United Kingdom)

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Brimming with charm and whimsy, this exquisite novel set in the Tower of London has the transportive qualities and delightful magic of the contemporary classics Chocolat and Amélie. 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. That’s right, he is a Beefeater (they really do live there). It’s no easy job living and working in the tourist attraction in present-day London. Among the eccentric characters who call the Tower’s maze of ancient buildings and spiral staircases home are the Tower’s Rack & Ruin barmaid, Ruby Dore, who just found out she’s 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 erot­ica; 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 interest­ing. 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 delight­ful 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 origi­nal novel whose irresistible characters will stay with you long after you turn the stunning last page. Published in the UK in August 2010 as Balthazar Jones and the Tower of London Zoo.

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Title	:	The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise
Author	:	Julia Stuart
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 304 pages
Published	:	August 10th 2010 by Doubleday
Categories	:	Fiction. Humor. Historical. Historical Fiction. Animals. European Literature. British Literature

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Ratings: 3.58 From 9045 Users | 1753 Reviews

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very few books actually make me laugh out loud but this one did.there is a very memorable cast of characters including a beefeater who collects rain,a woman who works in the london underground lost and found where people bring in things like a canoe, an inflatable sex doll and dustin hoffman's oscar trophy.there is also a chaplain who writes erotic fiction and a 181 year old tortoise.like i said, it's very funny. but it's not all comedy.there's also sorrow,pain and joy...all the things that

3 ½ stars rounded up to 4. Years ago my Canadian niece landed a summer job (how'd she do that - some places will hire anybody) as a tour guide at the Tower. To this day get a few cocktails in her and shell regale you (much to the annoyance of her husband) with stories of hanging out with Beefeaters. She adored them - so when I saw this I just HAD to read it. It backs her up - Beefeaters do have their own private pub where they pursue their favorite pastimes hard drinking, tourist bashing and

There are a lot of unusual characters in this odd novel. There is Balthazar Jones, the Beefeater at the center of the story, whose life giving tours at the Tower of London is complicated by the Queen's decision to put him in charge of the Royal Menagerie she has abruptly decided to move from the zoo to the Tower. There is his wife, Hebe, who is struggling to cope with the death of their son while working to reunite people with items that have been turned into her at the London Underground Lost



This book made me laugh out loud so many times that my sides began to hurt. Normally I breeze through books quickly, but this one I savored, loving every minute of it. I'd heard that it was slow, and was dreading the slowing down of it, but I found it thoroughly and utterly delightful and so very, very British.There are so many scenes in this book that were perfect, and the characters - man, the characters were fantastic. The scene with the urn arriving at Hebe's workplace, the Erotic Fiction

DNF. Not very into it. I loved the historical research but very little is happening, and the characters are not real people but a bunch of quirky habits and pastimes. The language is overly-decorative and smart-alecky, and I didn't feel that I cared, even though there is a serious tragedy in the center of this book.

I liked this book. But I couldnt help, while reading it, thinking that I should like it more. It has many elements that often provide me with reading pleasure. The animals for instancethe poor wandering albatross that is missing its mate; the monkeys wildly flashing their junk at inopportune times; the missing penguins.Plus, this is a book about griefabout Balthazar and Hebe Jones grieving the loss of their son, Milo. And grieving for a child has potential to either pull a couple closer together