My Family and Other Animals

Author: Durrell, Gerald

Greek islands

Published on 5 May 2016 by Penguin Random House Children's UK (Puffin) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the A Puffin Book' series.

Durrell has an uncanny knack of discovering human as well as animal eccentricities' Sunday TelegraphTen-year-old Gerald doesn't know why his older brothers and sisters complain so much. With snakes in the bath and scorpions on the lunch table, the family home on the Greek island of Corfu is a bit like a zoo so they should feel right at home... Gerald joyfully pursues his interest in natural history in the midst of an unconventional and chaotic family life - all brilliantly retold in this very funny book.