My Family and Other Animals
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My Family and Other Animals is an autobiographical work by naturalist Gerald Durrell, telling of his childhood years spent on the Greek island of Corfu. It shows us the amazing and funny things that happened to the Durrell family in the island, and also the many animals that live there.
Durrell had already written several successful books about his trips collecting animals in the wild for zoos when My Family and Other Animals came out in 1956. Its comic exaggeration of the foibles of his family — including brother Lawrence Durrell, who later became a famous novelist — and heartfelt appreciation of the natural world made it very successful. It launched Durrell's career as owner of the Jersey Zoological Park on the Channel Island of Jersey, as well as novel-writer and television personality.
TV versions
My Family was made into a BBC television series in 1987. In [[2005 in television|2005-- it was remade by the BBC into a one-off 90-minute comedy-drama, starring Eugene Simon as the young Gerry. [1]