True Story. Keeley Hawes (Upstairs Downstairs) stars as Louisa Durell, an intrepid widow who in 1935 decamps from dreary England to a sun-dappled Greek island with her four recalcitrant children, ages 11 1to 21, knowing no one on the island or the Greek language! You can only imagine what ensues! Based on this adaptation of Gerald Durrell’s My Family and Other Animals and its two sequels.

Alongside Hawes’ matriarch Louisa Durrell are eldest son, Larry (Josh O’Connor), a budding writer on his way to becoming the famous novelist Lawrence Durrell; son number two, Leslie (Callum Woodhouse), an impulsive firearms enthusiast; daughter Margo (Daisy Waterstone), sixteen and man-crazy; and eleven-year-old Gerry (Milo Parker), who only has eyes for wildlife and grew up to be a world-renowned naturalist