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Just finished "The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise" by Julia Stuart. I loved it - but am unsure how to describe it. It's about the Beefeaters that live in the Tower of London complex. It's a serio-comic romp about love, loss, death, and accepting who you are. And it has some of the most memorable British characters (stereotypes and zany types) - both animal and human - that you can imagine. It has tragedy and slap-stick comedy, and some of the best one-liners I've read recently. [For example, (this is from memory) when the keeper reports the Komodo dragon is looking unusually well fed, the royal overseer responds "As long as it hasn't eaten any small children we have nothing to worry about."] Penguins are lost in transit. Pigs are kidnapped. Monopoly games are re-instated in the pub.
If you are a fan of P.G. Wodehouse, or similar authors, you're going to love this one!
Wow! I devoured it in one day!
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