The Garden of the Gods

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs

In the final book of his Corfu Trilogy, naturalist Gerald Durrell returns to his childhood on the Greek island of Corfu before the Second World War. Young Gerry keeps collecting animals, from geckos and scorpions to owls and puppies, while his mother and siblings Larry, Leslie and Margo stumble through romances, parties and disasters. Told with Durrell's warm comedy and close eye for nature, the book completes the story begun in My Family and Other Animals.

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• Paul Graham: “There is a third volume of Gerald Durrell's Corfu memoirs! So good I'm reading slow to make it last.”