The trilogy that inspired ITV&s television series The Durrells Three classic tales of childhood on an island paradise
- My Family & Other Animals Birds Beasts & Relatives & 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 & tortoises bats & butterflies scorpions & octopuses Through glorious silver-green olive groves & across brilliant-white beaches Gerry pursued his obsession causing hilarity & 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 & 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 & animals
- but above all childhood moulded by these things& New York Times