Paperback published by Harper Inspire 3rd August 2021
Fiancé, friends, and other animals
After a year that sees a broken-off engagement and the death of her beloved father, Penny is desperate to get away.
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 – searching for the places the Durrells knew decades before – 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.
My review
I’ve got my passport ready I’m off to Corfu ! My partner has been to Corfu but I haven’t. After reading Looking for the Durrells I really want to go to Corfu. Author Melanie Hewitt has written that one of her characters jets off to Corfu with making the reader feel like they want to be right there to take in this lovely scenery.
I went into this book with a fresh pair of eyes and enjoyed my flight into the fictional world of Penny in Corfu.
The beginning of Looking for the Durrells is quite sad with Penny’s sixty year old father dying in an hospice. She remembers her father used her favourite book My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell.
After the death of her father, she said farewell to her boyfriend Bruce. Then Penny takes a flight to St George South, Corfu to the Durrells Pilgrimage all on her own for a whole month, where she would hire a car and plan a route.That’s the nice part of being on holiday hiring a car out, to see the island . I remember hiring a car to see the island of Malta. Now I want to explore Corfu.
The reader is taken through a delightful journey as Penny wants to trace all where the Durrells has been in Corfu and much more that I can’t let slip as I don’t want to give away what happens. If love reading venture in fictional holidays like I do, then you are all in for a real treat.
I absolutely love the front voter of this book with a delightful story attached too !
ABOUT AUTHOR MELANIE HEWITT
After deciding she wanted to be a book illustrator, Melanie went to art college at the age of 18. Halfway through the year, she changed her mind and secured a place at Swansea University to study English. However, after 18 months, she left, moved home, and started looking for work as a nanny in London.
Then a local job advert for a reporter changed her life and career. She took up the post at the Doncaster Advertiser, later became Editor, and then worked in PR. She now works in education as Communications Lead for the XP Schools Trust based in Yorkshire, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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