# Turtle Diary

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- Book: [Turtle Diary](https://www.bookquiver.com/russell-hoban/turtle-diary) ([Turtle Diary.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/russell-hoban/turtle-diary.md))
- Authors: [Russell Hoban](https://www.bookquiver.com/russell-hoban)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4148-576-7
- Pages: 208
- Published: 2021-03-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.