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 === The Underground trains are above ground where the District Line passes the common ... on the left they converge towards Parsons Green and Putney Bridge ===
-[[File:Eel Brook Common map.jpg|thumb|left|300px|link=https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/51.4764/-0.1977|part of William's surroundings]] William gives us enough detail here and later in the book to make it clear that he lives in {{wp|Fulham}}, and that "the common" is {{wp|Eel Brook Common}}, a park near the Fulham Broadway tube station. Hoban lived on a street adjoining Eel Brook Common for many years<ref>Bullough, Tom. [https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/u.osu.edu/dist/c/26045/files/2016/01/Get-London-Reading-london-by-the-book-1llfuin.pdf ''The Rough Guide to London by the Book'']. Rough Guides, 2006, p. 42.</ref> and described the Fulham area in several of his novels; the view that William describes is basically what his would have been. There is less detail about Neaera's neighborhood so I'm not sure where she might live.
+<mapframe align="left" text="part of William's surroundings" width="300" height="300" zoom="15" longitude="-0.1977" latitude="51.4764" /> William gives us enough detail here and later in the book to make it clear that he lives in {{wp|Fulham}}, and that "the common" is {{wp|Eel Brook Common}}, a park near the Fulham Broadway tube station. Hoban lived on a street adjoining Eel Brook Common for many years<ref>Bullough, Tom. [https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/u.osu.edu/dist/c/26045/files/2016/01/Get-London-Reading-london-by-the-book-1llfuin.pdf ''The Rough Guide to London by the Book'']. Rough Guides, 2006, p. 42.</ref> and described the Fulham area in several of his novels; the view that William describes is basically what his would have been. There is less detail about Neaera's neighborhood so I'm not sure where she might live.
 == Chapter 8 ==

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	These are notes for '''''Turtle Diary''''' (1975), [[Russell Hoban]]'s third non-children's novel. It's a bittersweet philosophical semi-comic non-romance about two desperately lonely middle-aged Londoners who connect over a mutual obsession with stealing sea turtles from the zoo and returning them to the ocean.		These are notes for '''''Turtle Diary''''' (1975), [[Russell Hoban]]'s third non-children's novel. It's a bittersweet philosophical semi-comic non-romance about two desperately lonely middle-aged Londoners who connect over a mutual obsession with stealing sea turtles from the zoo and returning them to the ocean.

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	These are notes for '''''Turtle Diary''''' (1975), [[Russell Hoban]]'s third non-children's novel. It's a bittersweet philosophical semi-comic non-romance about two desperately lonely middle-aged Londoners who connect over a mutual obsession with stealing sea turtles from the zoo and returning them to the ocean.		These are notes for '''''Turtle Diary''''' (1975), [[Russell Hoban]]'s third non-children's novel. It's a bittersweet philosophical semi-comic non-romance about two desperately lonely middle-aged Londoners who connect over a mutual obsession with stealing sea turtles from the zoo and returning them to the ocean.

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 The novel was adapted into a {{wp|Turtle Diary|1985 film}} written by Harold Pinter and directed by John Irvin. Hoban disliked the movie (which omitted basically everything that was conveyed in the book's interior monologues), calling it "feeble and flabby";<ref>{{cite article|author=Carter, James|date=1995|title=Nutrition for the Eyes: An Interview with Russell Hoban from 1995|url=https://www.russellhoban.org/essay/nutrition-for-the-eyes-an-interview-with-russell-hoban-from-1995|publication=RussellHoban.org|pub-date=November 2, 2015|accessed=January 31, 2021}}.</ref> a radio adaptation<ref>[https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/9ded818092b04cdfb4acd0b5be3a6830 ''The Saturday Play: Turtle Diary''], dramatised by Alison Joseph, directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. BBC Radio 4 FM, April 19, 2003.</ref> in 2003 was more positively received by the author.<ref>{{cite article|author=Cooper, Richard|date=June 20, 2015|title=Russell Hoban on the Kraken|url=http://www.russellhoban.org/essay/russell-hoban-on-the-kraken-part-1|publication=RussellHoban.org|accessed=January 31, 2021}}</ref>
-There are 53 chapters, with William narrating the odd-numbered chapters and Neaera the even-numbered ones. The notes below refer to the 2013 edition from New York Review Books; ''Turtle Diary'' was also reprinted as part of the ''Russell Hoban Omnibus'' from Indiana University Press (1999).
+There are 53 chapters, with William narrating the odd-numbered chapters and Neaera the even-numbered ones. The notes below refer to the 2013 edition from New York Review Books; see '''[[/Editions/]]''' for others.
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 These are notes for '''''Turtle Diary''''' (1975), [[Russell Hoban]]'s third non-children's novel. It's a bittersweet philosophical semi-comic non-romance about two desperately lonely middle-aged Londoners who connect over a mutual obsession with stealing sea turtles from the zoo and returning them to the ocean.