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Gerald Durrell's beloved account of his childhood in Corfu, now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time

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

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 1 February 2025
      ISBN-13 9780241762943
      978-0241762943
      ISBN-10 0241762944
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      Travel & Transport Places and peoples: general and pictorial works

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Gerald Durrell's beloved account of his childhood in Corfu, now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time

      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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