the durrell's my family and other animals

The white cobbled paths, scarcely as wide as a rake’s head, wound laboriously round beds hardly larger than a big straw hat, beds in the shape of stars, half-moons, triangles and circles, all overgrown with a shaggy tangle of flowers run wild.

The garden, surrounded by tall fuchsia hedges, had the flowerbeds worked in complicated geometrical patterns, marked with smooth white stones. Its shutters had been faded by the sun to a delicate creamy-green, cracked and bubbled in places. 'A bewitching book' Sunday Times 27.The villa was small and square, standing in its tiny garden with an air of pink-faced determination. This tv tie in edition coincides with ITV's six part television series The Durrells. 9780241977620 My Family and Other Animals 27.7000 NZD InStock /shop/books /shop/books/non-fiction/biography-memoir /shop/books/non-fiction My Family and Other Animals is the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell. 'Durrell has an uncanny knack of discovering human as well as animal eccentricities' Sunday Telegraph Recounted with immense humour and charm My Family and Other Animals is a wonderful account of a rare, magical childhood. This tv tie in edition coincides with ITV's six part television series The Durrells.Įscaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist Gerry, along with their long-suffering mother and Roger the dog - take off for the island of Corfu.īut the Durrells find that, reluctantly, they must share their various villas with a menagerie of local fauna - among them scorpions, geckos, toads, bats and butterflies. My Family and Other Animals is the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell. This tv tie in edition coincides with ITV's six part television series The Durrells.Įscaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist Gerry, along with their long-suffering mother and Roger the dog - take off for the islan.

The durrell's my family and other animals