We Bought A Zoo - Benjamin Mee

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Offical Blurb

Benjamin Mee decided to uproot his family and move them to an unlikely new home: a dilapidated zoo on the English countryside, complete with over 200 exotic animals. It was his dream to refurbish the zoo and run it as a family business. There was much work to be done, and none of it easy. Tigers broke loose, money ran low, the staff grew skeptical, and family tensions ran high. Then tragedy struck.

His wife had a recurrence of a brain tumor, forcing Benjamin and his children to face the heartbreak of illness and the devastating loss of a wife and mother. But inspired by her memory and the healing power of the incredible family of animals they had grown to love, Benjamin and his kids resovled to move forward. The Mee family opened the gates of the revitalized zoo in July 2007.

MY REVIEW

I read this in two sittings hard to put down.  Sometimes funny, sometimes sad but mostly uplifting.  It left me wanting to visit the zoo and if I am ever in the vacinity I fully intend to do so.  I thoroughly enjoyed reading about Benjamin Mee's  trials and tribulations involved in buying, rejuvinating and ultimately re-opening the zoo, whilst coming to term's with his wife's illness and subsequent death, this is not a spoiler as the reader learns of his wife's tumor and prognosis from the opening chapters. 

*  I hope the film does the book justice.

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