My Family and Other Animals
Hardback
14 July 2016Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library
Synopsis
The inspiration behind ITV's hit family drama, The Durrells.
My Family and Other Animals is Gerald Durrell's hilarious account of five years in his childhood spent living with his family on the island of Corfu. With snakes, scorpions, toads, owls and geckos competing for space with one bookworm brother and another who's gun-mad, as well as an obsessive sister, young Gerald...
376 pages
9781909621985Details
14 July 2016376 pages
9781909621985Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library
Reviews
I do assure you, the world needs Durrell.Sir David Attenborough
The enduring joy of the book resides in reading about a bohemian family when you have never been part of one yourself . . . One night I laughed so hard I slipped out of bed, whacking my head on the nightstandMeg Rosoff, The Guardian
He [Durrell] produced a literary masterpiece that remains the finest evocation of paradise ever written. He built a paradise based on his own beliefs of what a zoo should be. And after his death in 1995, he left behind an organisation that works to restore a touch of paradise to humanity and to everything else that lives.Simon Barnes, Independent
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