num_pages: 412
description: 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.Audrey (a.k.a. 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. Despite her fear of flying she goes to him but not before she reluctantly dumps Winnifred with her unreliable friends. Poor Winnifred. When Audrey disarms an Air Marshal en route to St. Johns we begin to realize theres something well odd about her. And we soon know that Audreys quest to discover who her father really wasand reunite with Winnifredwill be an adventure like no other.
language: English
title: Come, Thou Tortoise
publisher: Knopf Canada