The Corfu Trilogy
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The trilogy that inspired ITV's six part television 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. Durrell's memories of those enchanted days gave rise to these three classic tales, loved by generations of adults and children alike, which are now available in one volume for the first time. 'He has an uncanny knack of discovering human as well as animal eccentrics' Sunday Telegraph '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
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3 primary booksCorfu Trilogy is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 1956 with contributions by Gerald Durrell.
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This was one of my grandmother's favourite books and she gave it to me a year or so before she passed away. She told me that whenever she was sad, she would cover herself with a Durrell story and take a nap dreaming of him and his animals - and she didn't even like animals all that much - but she sure loved Durrell's writing.
What's not to love? Durrell's gentle humour while describing his family, his soaring, sweeping, rapturous descriptions of the countryside and the animals that inhabit it, the slow-moving yet absorbing nature of the minutae of his life as a small English boy living on a Greek island: the reader experiences every moment with him, and lives a utopic life they can only dream of through his eyes and words. Durrell's family (animals included) have given my family hope for decades that no matter how much of a misfit you are in society's eyes, there will always be a place out there for you, even if only in the pages of a well-written memoir.
