I first read these as a young teen, and as an owner of a variety of animals myself, felt a particular affinity with Gerry. I re-read the books in my early twenties while in Corfu, and of course the age difference added depth and location even more colour. These are books you can read at any age, wonderfully evocative they whisk you back in time. There is a lightness of touch that charms, while the humour delights. Simply gorgeous!
Books in The Corfu Trilogy:
1. My Family and Other Animals
2. Birds, Beasts and Relatives
Gerald Durrell's beloved classic memoir, now published as a beautiful Penguin Clothbound Classics edition'When My Family and Other Animals was published it was as if someone had flung back the curtains, thrown up the windows and let in a stream of bright light' - Kathryn Hughes, Guardian'Gerald Durrell was magic' - Sir David Attenborough'Living in Corfu was rather like living in one of the more flamboyant and slapstick comic operas'It is 1935 and the Durrells have escaped the leaden summer skies of Bournemouth to arrive 'like a troupe of medieval tumblers' on the sun-drenched island of Corfu for a new life. Gerald Durrell's beloved portrayal of his chaotic family - beatific Mother, Roger the dog, diet-obsessed Margo, book-loving Lawrence and gun-wielding Leslie - as well as his own adventures with a burgeoning menagerie of beasts, birds and insects (including an owl called Ulysses), is a timeless account of an idyllic childhood and an uproarious portrait of the English abroad.
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Gerald Durrell's beloved classic memoir, now published as a beautiful Penguin Clothbound Classics edition'When My Family and Other Animals was published it was as if someone had flung back the curtains, thrown up the windows and let in a stream of bright light' - Kathryn Hughes, Guardian'Gerald Durrell was magic' - Sir David Attenborough'Living in Corfu was rather like living in one of the more flamboyant and slapstick comic operas'It is 1935 and the Durrells have escaped the leaden summer skies of Bournemouth to arrive 'like a troupe of medieval tumblers' on the sun-drenched island of Corfu for a new life. Gerald Durrell's beloved portrayal of his chaotic family - beatific Mother, Roger the dog, diet-obsessed Margo, book-loving Lawrence and gun-wielding Leslie - as well as his own adventures with a burgeoning menagerie of beasts, birds and insects (including an owl called Ulysses), is a timeless account of an idyllic childhood and an uproarious portrait of the English abroad.
My Family and Other Animals features in the following genres: Biographies & Autobiographies, Young Adult Fiction, eBooks of the Month, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Recommendations
Hardback, Paperback, Ebook, CD-Audio. £15.29, down from the £16.99 cover price. In Stock.
My Family and Other Animals was written by Gerald Durrell and published by Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
My Family and Other Animals has 336 pages
Yes it is part of The Corfu Trilogy series
£15.29, reduced from £16.99. In Stock.
