


There he developed an already burgeoning passion for animals, wild life and eventually conservation. Fear not I am back! Relatively recent Sunday night viewing of the televised ‘My Family and Other Animals’ by Gerald Durrell led me to borrow this bestselling and much-loved classic book from my mum, in an attempt to see what I had been missing out on all these years.įor those who don’t know although I imagine most people reading this do, at the age of 10, Gerald Durrell moved with his unwieldy family to the Greek island of Corfu. A recent preoccupation with running, a short break to Venice and a long spell reading the almost 1000 pages of David Copperfield has resulted in fewer blog posts and in particular fewer book reviews than usual.
