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The Corfu Trilogy

*The classic trilogy set in sun-soaked Corfu that inspired ITV's acclaimed TV series The Durrells*

Three classic tales of childhood on an island paradise — My Family and Other Animals, Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods by Gerald Durrell — are available in a single edition for the first time in The Corfu Trilogy.

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.

'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

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 768
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-14-102841-5
  • EAN
  • 9780141028415
  • Release date
  • 2006