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Brimming with charm and whimsy, this exquisite novel set in the Tower of London has the transportive qualities and delightful magic of the contemporary classics Chocolat and Amélie . Balthazar Jones has lived in the Tower of London with his loving wife, Hebe, and his 120-year-old pet... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Balthazar Jones: Beefeater, overseer of the Tower's royal menagerie, father of Milo, and collector of rain
- Hebe Jones: Bathazar's Wife, who works at London Underground's Lost Property Office
- Mrs. Cook: Balthazar and Hebe's one-hundred-eighty-one-year-old tortoise (the oldest tortoise in the world)
- Arthur Catnip: London Underground ticket inspector of limited height
- Rev. Septimus Drew: Tower chaplain who writes forbidden prose and pines for one of the residents
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- Ruby Dore: Barmaid at the Tower's Rack & Ruin pub who has a secret
- Valerie Jennings: Hebe's eccentric colleague who falls for someone of limited height
- The Ravenmaster: Philandering Beefeater who looks after the Tower's Ravens
- Ravenmaster
- Sir Walter Raleigh: Former Tower prisoner and its most troublesome ghost
- Yeoman Gaoler: Deputy to the Chief Yeoman Warder who is terrorized by ghostly poetry at night
- Chief Yeoman Warder: Suspicious head Beefeater
- Oswin Fielding: Equerry to The Queen
- Samuel Crapper: Lost Property Office's most frequent customer
- Milo: Balthazar and Hebe Jones' late son.
- Reginald Perkins
- Oswin
- Geoffroy
- Rev. Septimus Drew
- Tom Cotton
- Dr. Evangeline Moore
- George Proudfoot
- Ambrosine Clarke
- Niels Reinking
Setting & Locations edit
The Tower of London
- Salt Tower
- White Tower
- England
- Rack & Ruin
- London Zoo
- Tower Of London
- Brick Tower
- Chief Yeoman Warder
- Spain
- Denmark
- Catford
- Palace
- Tower Café
- China
- Bloody Tower
First Sentence edit
Beefeater /'be-fe-ter/: the popular name for the official guardians of the Tower of London.
Table of Contents edit
There are nineteen chapters to this book.
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Rainy Day Books (Staff Picks for 2010). (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Julia Stuart (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
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Publication Date: 2010
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Page Count: 304
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Publication Date: 2010
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Page Count: 304
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- Dewey: 823.92
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