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My Family and Other Animals (Paperback)
Short Description for My Family and Other AnimalsTells of the author's early life with his 'family and other animals' in Corfu where he lived as a boy.
Full description- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Published: 25 February 1999
- Format: Paperback 304 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Autobiography: General | Contemporary Fiction | Wildlife: General Interest | Places & Peoples: Pictorial Works
- ISBN 13: 9780140282597 ISBN 10: 0140282599
- Sales rank: 48,142
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A genuine classic
Don't let the fact that this is an autobiography put you off. My Family and Other Animals is not a dry factual account of Gerald Durrell's childhood. The book is a charming and whimsical telling of wondrous adventures and a group of very colourful characters. It is somewhat reminiscent of an Enid Blyton Famous Five adventure.
Young Gerry Durrell finds so much delight in the little things it really is difficult to put this book down. Whether he is discovering tortoises emerging from the depths of hidden caverns after months of hibernation, or causing an uproar at the dinner table after secreting a matchbox containing a family of scorpions into the house.
There were many instances where I found myself laughing out loud. I also, on occasion, found myself holding my breath, reading with one eye closed and yelling at the page, "nooo, what are you doing?"
This book is the very embodiment of the term â?~classic', and is one that everyone who is young at heart must read. by Karen
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