MY FAMILY & OTHER ANIMALS

Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family take off to the island of Corfu.
The Durrells find that, reluctantly, they must share their various villas with a menagerie of local fauna, thanks to the youngest of the family, budding naturalist Gerry. With snakes, scorpions, toads, owls and geckos competing for space with one bookworm brother and another who's gun-mad, as well as an obsessive sister, young Gerald has an awful lot of natural history to observe. This richly detailed, informative and riotously funny memoir of eccentric family life is a twentieth-century classic.

The inspiration behind ITV's hit family drama, The Durrells.