Three classic tales of childhood on an island paradise –\u00a0My Family and Other Animals<\/i>,\u00a0Birds, Beasts and Relatives<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0The Garden of the Gods<\/i>\u00a0by Gerald Durrell – are available in a single edition for the first time in\u00a0The Corfu Trilogy<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Just before the Second World War the Durrell family decamped to the glorious, sun-soaked island of Corfu where the youngest of the four children, ten-year-old Gerald, discovered his passion for animals: toads and tortoises, bats and butterflies, scorpions and octopuses. Through glorious silver-green olive groves and across brilliant-white beaches Gerry pursued his obsession . . . causing hilarity and mayhem in his ever-tolerant family.
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\n‘A delightful book full of simple, well-known things: cicadas in the olive groves, lamp fishing at night, the complexities of fish and animals – but, above all, childhood moulded by these things‘ New York Times<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Three classic tales of childhood on an island paradise –\u00a0My Family and Other Animals,\u00a0Birds, Beasts and Relatives\u00a0and\u00a0The Garden of the Gods\u00a0by Gerald Durrell – are available in a single edition for the first time in\u00a0The Corfu Trilogy. Just before the Second World War the Durrell family decamped to the glorious, sun-soaked island of Corfu where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"product_cat":[17],"product_tag":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n