The book is Durrell chatting and reminiscing about his life living in Corfu with his family when he was a boy. You meet his brilliantly eccentric family, and their friends (a mix of equally intriguing settlers and locals) and an amazing array of wildlife, magpies, terrapins, toads, scorpions, water snakes....
Durrell spends his time out watching (and often catching and keeping) the wildlife. He has an insatiable curiosity and a passion for any creature, no matter how repulsive to the rest of his family.
There is so much life in this book and reading it is like being on holiday. Gorgeous.
No-one to thank this time as its not a proof! Borrowed it off me dad...
