We bought a zoo

It was a dream come true, but the reality was wilder, more exciting and more radical than the zoo’s naive but benevolent new director could ever have imagined. Benjamin Mee moves with his family to an unlikely new home: a dilapidated zoo in a remote corner of England with more than 200 exotic animals, including four tigers, lions, pumas, three bears, a tapir and a pack of wolves. He wanted to renovate the zoo and run it as a family business, but it’s not exactly easy: the tigers are on the loose, the money is running out faster than expected, the staff is skeptical and tensions are building within the family. To make matters worse, disaster strikes: his wife Katherine’s brain tumor has returned. We Bought a Zoo! is the gripping story of a family who, despite all the adversity, continue to see the humor in life.