Ten-year-old Gerald doesn't know why his older brothers and sisterscomplain so much. With snakes in the bath and scorpions on thelunch table, the family home on the Greek island of Corfu is a bitlike a zoo so they should feel right at home... Gerald joyfullypursues his interest in natural history in the midsts of anunconventional and chaotic family life - all brilliantly retold inthis very funny book.