Corfu Trilogy

<b>*The classic trilogy set in sun-soaked Corfu that inspired ITV's acclaimed TV series <i>The Durrells*</i></b><br><br>Three classic tales of childhood on an island paradise - <i>My Family and Other Animals</i>,<i> Birds, Beasts and Relatives</i> and <i>The Garden of the Gods</i> by Gerald Durrell - are available in a single edition for the first time in <i>The Corfu Trilogy</i>.<br><br>Just before the Second World War the Durrell family decamped to the glorious, sun-soaked island of Corfu where the youngest of the four children, ten-year-old Gerald, discovered his passion for animals: toads and tortoises, bats and butterflies, scorpions and octopuses. Through glorious silver-green olive groves and across brilliant-white beaches Gerry pursued his obsession . . . causing hilarity and mayhem in his ever-tolerant family.<b><br><br>'A delightful book full of simple, well-known things: cicadas in the olive groves, lamp fishing at night, the complexities of fish and animals - but, above all, childhood moulded by these things<i>' New York Times</i></b>