{"product_id":"my-family-and-other-animals-1","title":"My Family And Other Animals By Durrell  Gerald","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGerald Durrell’s beloved account of his childhood in Corfu, now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\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\/b\u003e - \u003c\/i\u003eKathryn Hughes, Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Gerald Durrell was magic’\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e - Sir David Attenborough \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e''Living in Corfu was rather like living in one of the more flamboyant and slapstick comic operas’\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\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\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57579039457662,"sku":"NW9780241762943","price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780241762943.jpg?v=1783149444","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/my-family-and-other-animals-1","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}