Did you know that The Beefeaters who guard the Tower of London are obligated to live within its walls? I didn’t. Not until I read Julia Stewart’s new novel “The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise”.
The story’s main character is Balthazar, one of the Beefeaters, and not only has his wife left him, the Queen of England has decided to leave him in charge of the new Menagerie at the Tower, and his 181 year-old pet tortoise has run away. The characters are charming and the story is really delightful. It is a tale of things lost and things found, of love and the pursuit of happiness and all within the day-to-day life of a being a Beefeater. It is a book that is clever, funny and poignant and you will not want to put it down.
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