{"product_id":"my-family-and-other-animals-1","title":"My Family and Other Animals - By Gerald Durrell - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eGerald Durrell's beloved classic memoir, now published as a beautiful Penguin Clothbound Classics edition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e‘When My Family and Other Animals was published it was as if someone had flung back the curtains, thrown up the windows and let in a stream of bright light’ - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eKathryn Hughes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGuardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e‘Gerald Durrell was magic’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e- \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSir David Attenborough\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e‘Living in Corfu was rather like living in one of the more flamboyant and slapstick comic operas’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is 1935 and the Durrells have escaped the leaden summer skies of Bournemouth to arrive ‘like a troupe of medieval tumblers’ on the sun-drenched island of Corfu for a new life. Gerald Durrell’s beloved portrayal of his chaotic family – beatific Mother, Roger the dog, diet-obsessed Margo, book-loving Lawrence and gun-wielding Leslie – as well as his own adventures with a burgeoning menagerie of beasts, birds and insects (including an owl called Ulysses), is a timeless account of an idyllic childhood and an uproarious portrait of the English abroad.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Clothbound","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50633138438306,"sku":"9780241767061","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1240\/0398\/files\/DURRELL.jpg?v=1792110788","url":"https:\/\/thereadingspa.com\/products\/my-family-and-other-animals-1","provider":"The Reading Spa","version":"1.0","type":"link"}