My Family and Other Animals

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My Family and Other Animals

By: Gerald Durrell

Narrated by: Hugh Bonneville

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The book is an autobiographical account of five years in the childhood of naturalist Gerald Durrell. The book is divided into three sections, marking the three villas in which the family lived on the island. Apart from Gerald (the youngest) and Larry, the family comprised their widowed mother, the gun-mad Leslie, and diet-obsessed sister Margo together with Roger the dog.

They are fiercely protected by their taxi-driver friend Spiro (Spyros "Americano" Chalikiopoulos) and mentored by the polymath Dr Theodore Stephanides who provides Gerald with his education in natural history. Other human characters, chiefly eccentric, include Gerald's private tutors, the artistic and literary visitors Larry invites to stay, and the local peasants who befriend the family. An audio treat for those young and old.

Gerald DurrellHugh BonnevilleCSA WordCorfu

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"Hugh Bonneville gives a lovely reading… Delicious!" ( Daily Express)

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I regretted not seeing the BBC TV series about the author’s boyhood in Corfu and his passion for creature of every kind, so decided to read the book and listen to the audio. Was entranced. The only disappointment was that the audio is abridged, though there is nothing to warn one of this.
Hugh Bonneville’s reading was marvellous- I loved his voices, particularly that of Spiro, the Greek. The writing is magical and Durrell has such imaginative and evocative ways of describing people, places, insects and other species that the book was thoroughly entertaining, informative and amusing. I want to hear the rest in the series but it’s a shame that they are not read by Hugh Bonneville.