My Family and Other Animals

Description

Title: My Family and Other Animals
Author: Durrell, Gerald
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 25/11/2025
Imprint: PENGUIN
ISBN: 9780241767061

Gerald Durrell’s beloved account of his childhood in Corfu, published in a beautiful Penguin Clothbound Classics edition for the first time

‘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.