Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise (Stuart)

Author Bio
• Birth—N/A
• Rasied—West Midlands, England, UK
• Education—N/A
• Currently—Bahrain

Julia Stuart is an English novelist and journalist. She grew up in the West Midlands, England, and studied French and Spanish. She lived for a period in France and Spain teaching English.

After studying journalism at university, she worked on regional newspapers for six years. She worked for The Independent for eight years. In 2007, she relocated to Bahrain with her husband, who is also a journalist.

Stuart's first novel, The Matchmaker of Périgord, published in 2007, is the story of a barber in decline who decides to open a matchmaking agency in the small French town of Amor-Sur-Belle. The story was inspired by a visit to Périgord. The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise, Stuart's second novel, published in 2010, is the story of Balthazar Jones who lives and works in the Tower of London with his wife and his 120-year-old tortiose. (From Wikipedia.)