A review by opheliapo
My Family & Other Animals by Gerald Durrell

5.0

This is an indescribably charming book and an absolute credit to the cause of wildlife conservation. Durrell’s account is both absurd and honest, never forgetting to stress the pure insanity of the situation, nor leave out the more gory details of tortoise sex and the deaths of more than a few of his own ‘pets’.
I flew through this book and didn’t realise just how much I was enjoying myself until it was over and I had to return to the mundaneness of real life.