Fillets of Plaice
Autobiographical, Book 12
by Gerald Durrell
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Books Recommended by Paul Graham, Fiction, and Nonfiction.
For fans of the PBS Masterpiece Theater series, The Durrells in Corfuhere's what happened next! After leaving the island of Corfu, Durrell, his mother, his brother Leslie and their Greek maid Maria Kondos moved back to Britain in 1939. It was difficult to find work, especially for a homeschooled boy, but Durrell managed to land a job as a helper...
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Paul Graham
Co-founder of Y Combinator; essayist
“There is a third volume of Gerald Durrell's Corfu memoirs! So good I'm reading slow to make it last.”
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