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Margaret Durrell

    Margaret Durrell's life was marked by adventure, moving from British India to Corfu and later settling in England. Her experiences as a boarding house owner and her deep connection to Greece informed her unique narrative voice. Her sole published work, an autobiographical account, offers a humorous and intimate glimpse into her family's unconventional lives and her own spirited journey.

    Das Gästehaus
    Co się stało z Margo?
    Whatever Happened to Margo?
    • 2018

      Whatever Happened to Margo?

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      3.2(108)Add rating

      *With a foreword from Gerald Durrell* In 1947, returning to the UK with two young children to support, Margaret Durrell starts a boarding house in Bournemouth. But any hopes of respectability are dashed as the tenants reveal themselves to be a host of eccentrics: from a painter of nudes to a pair of glamorous young nurses whose late-night shifts combined with an ever-revolving roster of gentleman callers leading to a neighbourhood rumour that Margo is running a brothel. Margo's own two sons, Gerry and Nicholas, prove to be every bit as mischievous as their famous Uncle Gerald - and he himself returns periodically with weird and wonderful animals, from marmosets to monkeys, that are quite unsuitable for life in a Bournemouth garden.

      Whatever Happened to Margo?