Fiancés, friends, and other animals. . .After a year that sees a brokenoff engagement and the death of her beloved father, Penny is desperate to get away.Fulfilling a childhood dream, she sets off on a monthlong pilgrimage to Corfuan 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 tightknit circle of strangers. Exploringsearching for the places the Durrells knew decades beforeshe 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. . .
Fiancés, friends, and other animals. . .After a year that sees a brokenoff engagement and the death of her beloved father, Penny is desperate to get away.Fulfilling a childhood dream, she sets off on a monthlong pilgrimage to Corfuan 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 tightknit circle of strangers. Exploringsearching for the places the Durrells knew decades beforeshe 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. . .
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