![]() ![]() ![]() For many years, he has had a secret love whose name was Mrs Silver. Mr Hoppy is a shy elderly man who lives alone in an apartment, tending to his many plants, which have been the centre of his life since he retired from his job in a bus garage several years before. Crossposted at WordPress, Blogspot, & Librarything by Bookstooge’s Exalted Permission This review is written with a GPL 4.0 license and the rights contained therein shall supersede all TOS by any and all websites in regards to copying and sharing without proper authorization and permissions. It's a short book but one of his better ones. It wasn't the best thing ever, but it was a funny little love story and I was amused reading it. They just don't grab me, for all I do like Quentin Blake's illustrations. I generally don't really like Roald Dahl's books. Mrs Silver, so impressed by him, agrees to marry him and they all live happily ever after. I enjoyed the silliness and creativity Mr Hopper demonstrates in solving the problem. And then by actually buying all the tortoises available at a bunch of pet shops and replacing Alfie with a slightly bigger tortoise every week for eight weeks. Which he does with a backwards poem (because the language of tortoises is backwards - obviously - said night and day. When Mrs Silver says she desperately wants to see Alfie grow bigger, Mr Hopper is determined to make it happen. ![]() Mr Hopper is desperately in love with his neighbour Mrs Silver who spends all her time doting on her pet tortoise Alfie. ![]()
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