My family and Other Animals

✍ Durrell, Gerald 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🏛 Penguin Books Ltd 🌐 en-GB ⚖ 353 KB

Sometimes it's pretty hard to tell them apart... my family and the animals, that is. I don't know why my brothers and sisters complain so much. With snakes in the bath and scorpions on the lunch table, our house, on the island of Corfu, is a bit like a circus. So they should feel right at home...

My Family and Other Animals

✍ Durrell, Gerald 📂 Fiction 📅 1957 🏛 Penguin Books 🌐 English ⚖ 176 KB

When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what any sensible family would do: sell their house and relocate to the sunny Greek isle of Corfu. **My Family and Other Animals** was intended to embrace the natural history of the island but ended u

My Family and Other Animals

✍ Durrell, Gerald 📂 Fiction 📅 0 🌐 English ⚖ 175 KB

My family and other animals

📂 Standards 🌐 English ⚖ 2 MB

When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what any sensible family would do: sell their house and relocate to the sunny Greek isle of Corfu. My Family and Other Animals was intended to embrace the natural history of the island but ended up as

My Animals and Other Family

✍ Julia Blackburn 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Random House 🌐 English ⚖ 7 MB

In these five stories Julia Blackburn recalls the significant animals in her life and in so doing gives us a sidelong glance at the human members of her family, her painter mother and poet father. First comes Congo the bush baby, from the jungles of Madagascar via Harrods pet department. He slept

My Animals and Other Family

✍ Balding, Clare 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🏛 Penguin Press HC, The 🌐 English ⚖ 3 MB

_“I had spent most of my childhood thinking I was a dog, and suspect I had aged in dog years. By the time I was ten I had discovered the pain of unbearable loss. I had felt joy and jealousy. Most important of all, I knew how to love and how to let myself be loved. All these things I learned through

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