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The Picnic and Suchlike Pandemonium

If you loved My Family and Other Animalsand can't get enough of the Durrells after the Corfu series, this is the book for you. It constitutes a series of anecdotal snippets and short stories including 'The Picnic', a laugh-out-loud account of an ill-fated Durrell family excursion, which should have been a relaxing, jolly affair. But with the Durrells things are seldom straightforward and on this occasion all that could go wrong did go wrong - except Gerald Durrell's sense of humour in recounting the tale. Other hilarious and surreal Roald Dahlesque stories ensue, including the critically acclaimed Gothic horror story 'The Entrance'.

Subject
biographytravel
Genre
humorhorror
Themes
animalsnature
Setting
20th centuryrussia
Audience
adult
Length
short · 193 pages
Form
short storiesessays

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