Weaknesses: Gin, Financial Woes, and the Promise of RomanceĬast Secret: According to The Telegraph (UK), actress Keeley Hawes ( Upstairs, Downstairs) once listed My Family and Other Animals when asked for 'A Book That Changed Me.' She said, 'Having never travelled or really been anywhere, it opened up a whole other world of possibility for me.' Strengths: Courage, Food Foraging, and Faking It 'Til She Makes It Will this new life bring her love, happiness, or something unexpected? But Corfu has a habit of shaking things up, and by every account Louisa could use a change. Louisa's deep love for her children is evident by her constant wrangling, bargaining, and finding ways to get them out of trouble. Part mother bear, part circus ringleader, Louisa Durrell makes the fateful decision to bring her family to the other side of the world. Get to know the colorful characters, and the actors who portray them, with Masterpiece's introduction to this sun-drenched series with a biting wit. But before you escape to Corfu, be sure to meet the family. The new series, The Durrells in Corfu, premiering October 16th at 8/7c, is a six-part adaptation of *Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals (and its two sequels, Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods), and follows one unconventional mother and her four children on their quest to start anew. Print book : English View all editions and formats Here's an article written by the publicity staff about the new version: Author: We viewed the 1987 mini-series, also a Masterpiece production, previously, which led to us reading the 1956 book there is a link to Find a Library, using your postal code, to locate a copy nearby. And if you can find a copy of the earlier television version, we can attest to it's excellent cast. Editor's Note: This is not the first time that a series, My Family and Other Animals, based on Durrell's 1956 book of the same name, has been dramatized on television.

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