I finished My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell this week. I enjoyed the PBS show The Durrells of Corfu so much that I just HAD to read some of his books! I've heard that he actually took some artistic liberties with the stories about his family's actual stay in Corfu...and that's not unusual for authors. The family, a widowed mother, three sons and a daughter moved to the Greek island in the 1930's from England. Gerald is the youngest and has an unquenchable interest in nature, especially the fauna. Their adventures and challenges living on the island seems very interesting and often funny, also. I enjoyed this book and will move on to one of his other books next. One thing did bother me about it. I would've liked it better if it had had pics of the real family (my copy showed the "TV family" on the cover instead) and maybe showed pics of some of the animal life of Corfu. The descriptions of Gerry's menagerie that he somehow kept in or around the house can be a bit longish without pics or something...even for someone like me that loves nature. On the TV series, of course, you see lots of animals.
