![]() ![]() I picked her up and she blinked at me with her upside-down eyelids. I was alone in Portland and the trees were giant. ![]() I would not say no to a tortoise, I said. Nobody knew how old Iris was or where she had come from originally. Cliff had inherited Iris from the previous tenant. For this, be sure, to-night thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up urchins. Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself Upon thy wicked dam, come forth 45. The previous tenant, a rock climber named Cliff, was embarking on a rock-climbing adventure that would not have been much fun for Winnifred. Come forth, I say there's other business for thee: Come, thou tortoise when. And we soon know that Audrey’s quest to discover who her father really was – and reunite with Winnifred – will be an adventure like no other. John’s we begin to realize there’s something, well, odd about her. When Audrey disarms an Air Marshal en route to St. Despite her fear of flying, she goes to him, but not before she reluctantly dumps Winnifred with her unreliable friends. Oddly) Flowers is living quietly in Oregon with Winnifred, her tortoise, when she finds out her dear father has been knocked into a coma back in Newfoundland. A delightfully offbeat story that features an opinionated tortoise and an IQ-challenged narrator who find themselves in the middle of a life-changing mystery.Īudrey (a.k.a. ![]()
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