![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps the title, or the author’s reputation, will make you think that this memoir is for natural history enthusiasts alone. Let me forestall any doubters from the outset. My Family and Other Animals (1954) is an absolute joy a real laugh-out-loud book. ![]() Perhaps I would never have actually got around to reading it if it hadn’t arrived in this beautiful packaging (and Slightly Foxed Editions are unrivalled in their compact elegance), and my life would certainly have been the poorer for it. What they’ve done this time, with Gerald Durrell’s My Family and Other Animals is introduce me, instead, to a book that has been hovering on my peripheries as long as I can remember. Slightly Foxed Editions often introduce me to books I know nothing about – hidden gems waiting to be unearthed – and that is wonderful. ![]()
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