A review by emilygk
Esio Trot by Roald Dahl

2.0

Two uses of that great British word, titchy, in the span of a 60-page book, but that is the only nice thing I have to say about it. This is a story about a man who likes a woman and chooses to go completely out of his way to deceive her into thinking he is knowledgeable about tortoises (esio trot is “tortoise” backward) and then his deceit leads to them getting MARRIED and then that’s it, that is the book. No commentary at all on the fact that he completely lied to her, not to mention stole her tortoise and replaced it with others.