Description
Jacquie Durrell is married to Gerald Durrell-the Durrell of The Overloaded Ark and The Bafut Beagles and Mrs Gerald Durrell is sick and tired of being told how lucky she is to have such a famous husband and lead such a glamorous life. Very much a personality in her own right, she decided to describe her own ex- periences of living with the Durrells and their animals.
So she wrote this book about her entry into the Durrell menagerie and her subsequent encounters with beasts both human and animal. Her astringent and very personal observations on the situa- tions in which she found herself will appeal to anyone who has read her husband's books, visited the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust Zoo, which they started together, or seen their various successful television series on animal collecting in remote parts of the world. Those who read and relished Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals can also renew their acquaintance with the rest of that intriguing and now famous family.
Sunday Times
ISBN:9780006126270
