My Family and Other Animals

The best book about summer! The first part of the world-famous Gerald Durrell trilogy about the adventures of his family in Greece. The famous trilogy has been translated into many languages, repeatedly adapted for film and television, and many of those who decided to connect their lives with nature say that one of the reasons was Durrell’s books.

Everything begins with the fact that the Durrell family, led by Mother, decides to abandon chilly London and move somewhere closer to warmth and sunshine—and ends up on Corfu, a wonderful Greek island. Young Jerry, the future great naturalist and zoologist, discovers the island’s rich nature, while his relatives try to sort out everyday life. Incredibly funny adventures of the scatterbrained Durrell family, entertaining stories about island life, and mesmerizing descriptions of the island’s flora and fauna—this is what makes the book loved by generations of readers.

It’s one of those books you return to throughout your life, again and again, to feel that intoxicating sensation of summer ease and a thirst for life. Like a sip of summer and happiness, it charges you with energy and encourages you to take a closer look at the world around you—because miracles literally surround us.