The third book in The Corfu Trilogy (after My Family & Other Animals & Birds Beasts & Relatives) the beloved books that inspired ITV's television series The Durrells 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