When Life Gives You Lemurs

 When Life Gives You Lemurs

Reviewed By  Grasshopper2       September 3, 2024

 

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The honesty and sincerity with which When Life Gives You Lemurs is told is remarkable. There is a warning on the front page that a sexual assault is described and as the story opens you can tell where the danger lies. This is Tim’s story written beautifully by Deborah Kane. She has been able to produce a readable story without overdoing the sentimentality. It is the facts that quietly amaze.

 Tim came from a rigid, Jehovah’s Witness family who were estranged from each other.  The emotional vacuum in the family home was bearable until Tim began to question the values and structures of that faith. He was forced to leave home at the age of fourteen under terrible circumstances. He was completely alone and estranged from any human. Taken in by a person who ran a local Zoo, Tim found great solace in caring for animals. They asked nothing of him and gave him a focus for his energy and compassion.

As Tim gradually awakened from the cloud of fear he had been living, his natural curiosity turned towards the animals that he nurtured. His questions about their well-being led him to study further and enlarge his knowledge of animal needs and survival. This in turn caused him to experiment with building new animal enclosures and treatments for his charges. As he became well known, people from overseas sent for him to solve their issues with animals, and designing enclosures and zoos made this man famous.

When Life Gives You Lemurs is a wonderful story of how animals can and often do, heal the deeply traumatised and wounded.

Biographies, Non Fiction