The excerpt below gives readers a taste of the Durrell family's dynamic: tightly-knit, spirited, and snarky in the way only close family members can be. Their funny exploits and domestic dramas are chronicled throughout The Corfu Trilogy, and have recently been adapted for the PBS television show, The Durrells in Corfu. Like all families, they bickered constantly and stuck their noses into places they didn’t belong-but ultimately formed a group that had each other’s backs. Of course, some of the most interesting species were Gerald’s wacky mother, brothers, and sister, who suffered hilarious mishaps due to Gerald’s fondness for local wildlife. It was there that Gerald first discovered his love for all things furry, feathered, or multi-legged. Prior to World War II, his widowed mother and three siblings packed up their belongings, left dreary England, and fled to the sunny shores of the Corfu Islands. In the first of Gerald Durrell’s trio of memoirs, My Family and Other Animals, the author-slash-environmentalist describes the beginning of his unconventional childhood in Greece.
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