# My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell (Paperback)

_'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.

## Details

- **Price:** 9.99 GBP
- **Vendor:** Penguin Classics
- **Type:** Gerald Durrell
- **Tags:** All Books, Biographies & Memoirs

## Variants

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## Images

- My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell (Paperback) cover

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