# 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
- Medium: audio
- Length: 5 h 48 min
- Narrated by: Harry Myers, Lucy Paterson
- ISBN: 978-02-4152-514-2
- Published: 2021-04-29
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 5 h 48 min

## Description

Brought to you by Penguin. 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. 'Wonderful, life-saving ... places Russell Hoban among the greatest, timeless novelists' The Times '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 © Russell Hoban 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021