Fiancés, friends, and other animals. . .
Penny is desperate to get away after a terrible year with a broken engagement and the death of her father.
Fulfilling a childhood dream, she sets off on a month-long pilgrimage to Corfu--an island idyll she knows only through the pages of Gerald Durrell’s My Family and Other Animals.
On the island, Penny quickly finds herself drawn into the lives of a tight-knit circle of strangers. Exploring and searching for the places the Durrells knew decades before. On the way she makes unexpected discoveries about the hopes, fears, and secrets of the people living there today.
And as strangers start to be friends, lives past and present become entwined in ways none of them could have predicted making this a really feel good story. A good holiday read where you can imagine you are in Corfu with her and her new friends.
Penny is desperate to get away after a terrible year with a broken engagement and the death of her father.
Fulfilling a childhood dream, she sets off on a month-long pilgrimage to Corfu--an island idyll she knows only through the pages of Gerald Durrell’s My Family and Other Animals.
On the island, Penny quickly finds herself drawn into the lives of a tight-knit circle of strangers. Exploring and searching for the places the Durrells knew decades before. On the way she makes unexpected discoveries about the hopes, fears, and secrets of the people living there today.
And as strangers start to be friends, lives past and present become entwined in ways none of them could have predicted making this a really feel good story. A good holiday read where you can imagine you are in Corfu with her and her new friends.