<p>'The sky turns the colour of a jay's eye. The sea turns a deep royal purple. The mist lifts in quick, lithe ribbons, like a conjuring trick. Before us lies the island?'<br>It's 1935, and an eccentric English family ? four children, their widowed mother, and Roger the dog ? arrives on the sun-soaked shores of Corfu to start a new life.<br>For eleven-year-old Gerry Durrell, the extraordinary landscape provides the perfect playground. Its exotic ...