delanaloo 's review for:

My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell

5.0

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This would be one of the books I would want when stranded on a deserted island! I wasn't sure which edition cover to choose, because my copy lost its long ago and is held together with a rubber band... I have read and re-read it many times over the years and it still makes me laugh out loud! In the forward Gerald Durrell writes that the book was meant to be an account of the flora and fauna on the small Greek island of Corfu where he lived as a boy. But he made the mistake of introducing his family in the first few pages and they refused to leave. Between the family, the Greek friends and neighbors and the odd assortment of animals Gerry drags home, you will never meet such and eccentric bunch of characters.

When I buy a boat, I'm naming it the Bootle-Bumtrinket!