{"product_id":"my-family-and-other-animals-by-gerald-durrell-9780241767061","title":"My Family and Other Animals","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Family and Other Animals\u003c\/i\u003e by Gerald Durrell is his beloved account of childhood in Corfu, now published in a beautiful Penguin Clothbound Classics edition for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Living in Corfu was rather like living in one of the more flamboyant and slapstick comic operas.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46546862571756,"sku":"9780241767061","price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780241767061.jpg?v=1750033799","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/my-family-and-other-animals-by-gerald-durrell-9780241767061","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}