Melinda Worfolk's Reviews > My Family and Other Animals

This was one of my favourite books as a child. I was probably ten years old when I first found it in the stacks of the adult nonfiction section of my public library, and I have probably read it at least 20 times, along with its sequels. The book begins with the young Durrell and his family sitting gloomily inside, trapped by the English rain, when they decide to move to sunny Greece to join older brother Larry and his wife in Corfu. (Imagine my surprise later as an English major when I realized Larry was actually acclaimed author Lawrence Durrell.)

I remember Durrell’s narrative as gentle and humorous, but also sharply observant and quite droll. I plan to reread this and I hope it stands up to my memories of it.