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My Family and Other Animals

By: Gerald Durrell
Narrated by: Nigel Davenport
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 This memoir is soaked in the sunshine of Corfu, where Gerald Durrell lived as a boy, surrounded by his eccentric family - as well as puppies, toads, scorpions, geckoes, ladybugs, glowworms, octopuses, bats, and butterflies.©1956 Gerald Durrell (P)2016 Audible, Inc. Animals Biological Sciences Environmentalists & Naturalists Outdoors & Nature Professionals & Academics Science Funny Witty Feel-Good

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"A lot of frolic, fun, and charming ribaldry, as well as the warm feeling of having been transported to a lovely spot where worry is unknown and anything is believable." ( The New York Times)
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Loved it, thank you! Lovely company while doing household tasks. Give it a go - good fun!

Humorous and heartwarming!

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There is nothing not to like about this book. Beautifully written, highly amusing, while also an education on Corfu and its animals, and performed to perfection. Thank goodness there are two books to follow.

Absolutely brilliant and spirits lifting

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Narrated beautifully this story was engaging and entertaining. What fabulous bunch of eccentric personalities! The characters were bought to life, and what a treasurer's home-schooling adventure

loved it

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Enjoyed this book and want to listen again because each chapter contains so much. Lots of laughs to be had.

A fun story

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Watched this series on television at a young age,
and listening to the book 45 years later was fun ear candy.

So very reflective of a time, place and pace before
tourists became truly ignorant and offensive to a foreign
country’s citizens.

Lovely lively learning :-)

Laughter for all from all the characters :-)

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