Beasts In My Bed

by Jacquie Durrell

paperback published in 1967, this edition 1971.

The first wife of naturalist and author, Gerald Durrell, Jacquie Durrell recounts their early days together and plenty of trips to collect animals from overseas.  She's a warm and funny writer and it's interesting to hear a different voice on the very well documented adventures of Gerald Durrell. 

 "Gerry Durrell's intrusion into my life was annoying and upsetting for everyone concerned. Being by nature a rather solitary person, and also scornful of people whom I considered to be shallow, spoilt and wholly extrovert, I viewed Mr Durrell at first with grave suspicion."