Turtle Diary
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These are notes for Turtle Diary (1975), Russell Hoban's third non-children's novel. It's a bittersweet philosophical semi-comic non-romance about two desperately lonely middle-aged Londoners who connect over a mutual obsession with stealing sea turtles from the zoo and returning them to the ocean.
The novel has 53 chapters, with William narrating the odd-numbered chapters and Neaera the even-numbered ones. The notes below refer to the 2013 edition from New York Review Books.
Major characters
- William G., a recently divorced bookstore clerk.
- Neaera H., a successful writer and illustrator of children's books.
- George Fairbairn, aquarium keeper at the London Zoo.
- Harriet, one of William's co-workers.
- Mr. Sandor and Miss Neap, William's bedsit neighbors.