... and loving family, who have moved into the country, and are settling into their new found rural life. In Gerald Durrells 'My family and other animals' he introduces his family, as Laurie does, but in not such a loving way, Durrells family are clearly not as loving and fond of each other as Laurie Lee's family are. In Durrell's similarly large family, there are endless selfish complaints of illness. The fist chapter is titled- 'The migration', which suggest to the reader that the family will be moving or are moving away, but in 'Cider with Rosie' the first chapter is called 'First light' which tells us nothing about them moving away, just that it is his first memory. In chapter 1 of 'My family and other animals' Gerald Durrell covers a wide time span in a short time. The chapter starts with the bleak description of where he and his ...

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