Coming out of my shell: The memoirs of Jerry the Tortoise by Sprigg, Alison

Coming out of my shell: The memoirs of Jerry the Tortoise (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781724657626)

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Coming out of my shell: The memoirs of Jerry the Tortoise by Sprigg, Alison

Coming out of my shell: The memoirs of Jerry the Tortoise

$10.63
Coming out of my shell: The memoirs of Jerry the Tortoise by Sprigg, Alison

Coming out of my shell: The memoirs of Jerry the Tortoise

$10.63
Format: Paperback
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"A fridge probably seems an unlikely place from which to introduce myself. After all, someone like myself, being a tortoise of Mediterranean descent, is more usually associated with warmth and sunshine."This is the diary of a slowbody. But just because he lives inside a shell, that doesn't stop this unusual diarist from sticking his neck out, to take in the world around him.Forced by war to leave his native North Africa and embark on an odyssey via Greece to England, Jerry has of necessity learned to live alongside humankind: a species known to tortoises as 'the bipeds'. Ever true to his own species' motto - "Slow and steady wins the race" - Jerry quietly scrutinizes the human race itself, as he deals with deprivation, danger and injury. But he also encounters unexpected kindness, true empathy and help in desperate need.During his long and eventful life, Jerry has keenly observed his hosts' behaviour, habits and communication. The result is Jerry's own tale of life amongst the bipeds.

Author: Alison Sprigg
ISBN-10: 1724657623
ISBN-13: 9781724657626
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 09/10/2018
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.38d
By Alison Sprigg
By Alison Sprigg
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The author is a lifelong chronicler of personal, local and wider events, and a writer of articles for various magazines. In working on 'Coming out of my shell', she has been able to combine her love of writing with her love of the animals she's known and her interest in their interaction with humans. So she was delighted when it became apparent that Jerry, the independently-minded tortoise with whom she was fortunate enough to live for many years, would need a literary assistant in chronicling his own busy life (busy in tortoise terms, that is). This naturally involved Jerry's story of his relationship with the various 'bipeds' he's met along the way. But now that Jerry no longer needs a secretary - having completed his memoirs and, indeed, moved on to pastures new - the author is finally planning to write a book of her very own. Living in a flat in Eastbourne, she enjoys a view of the sea whenever she looks up from her desk, on which stands a treasured photo of her chelonian friend and the true inspiration for this book; Jerry the Tortoise.

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