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Zany adventure in the Tower of London

Usually, one must wait in frustratingly long lines to see the treasures of the Tower of London. But a delightfully zany and touching novel, The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise, by British writer Julia Stuart, has jumped the queue to take readers on a fictional romp through the Tower's realm. Set in contemporary London, the story has a cast of characters one might expect to find in a Monty ...