Our Zoo

''With characteristic self-effacement, she puts the escapades of charismatic animals ahead of her own feelings.'' The Guardian.


When George Mottershead moved to the village of Upton-by-Chester in 1930 to realise his dream of opening a zoo without bars, his four-year-old daughter June had no idea how extraordinary her life would become. Soon her best friend was a chimpanzee called Mary, lion cubs an...