{"product_id":"9780241762943-my-family-and-other-animals","title":"My Family and Other Animals","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGerald Durrell’s beloved account of his childhood in Corfu, now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘When My Family and Other Animals was published it was as if someone had flung back the curtains, thrown up the windows and let in a stream of bright light’\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/i\u003eKathryn Hughes, Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Gerald Durrell was magic’\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e - Sir David Attenborough \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Living in Corfu was rather like living in one of the more flamboyant and slapstick comic operas’\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is 1935 and the Durrells have escaped the leaden summer skies of Bournemouth to arrive ‘like a troupe of medieval tumblers’ on the sun-drenched island of Corfu for a new life. Gerald Durrell’s beloved portrayal of his chaotic family – beatific Mother, Roger the dog, diet-obsessed Margo, book-loving Lawrence and gun-wielding Leslie – as well as his own adventures with a burgeoning menagerie of beasts, birds and insects (including an owl called Ulysses), is a timeless account of an idyllic childhood and an uproarious portrait of the English abroad.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55323146223990,"sku":"9780241762943","price":8.97,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_38973893_3861d71c-1ad1-4b5c-8439-9413bc444b08.jpg?v=1765419898","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780241762943-my-family-and-other-animals","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}