![]() ![]() At the time, Imperial Airways used Corfu as a waypoint between Africa and England. She met Jack Breeze, the chief flight engineer of an Imperial Airways flying boat, later the same year. Margo's mother, with Gerald and Leslie, returned to England by 1939 with the outbreak of World War II, but Margo decided that her real home was on Corfu and remained on the island, sharing a peasant cottage with some local friends. In 1935, along with her brothers Gerald and Leslie, she accompanied her mother to a new home on Corfu, following her eldest brother, Lawrence, who had moved there a few months earlier with his first wife, Nancy Myers. Early life ĭurrell was born in Kurseong, Bengal, in British India and brought up in India and England. The manuscript was apparently written in the 1960s and was discovered in the attic by a granddaughter nearly 35 years later. ![]() It includes details about the lives of her family, particularly Leslie, Gerald, and her mother Louisa Durrell following their time on Corfu. She wrote a memoir, Whatever Happened to Margo?, giving a humorous account of her experiences as a Bournemouth landlady in the late 1940s. ![]() Margaret Isabel Mabel "Margo" Durrell ( – 16 January 2007) was the younger sister of novelist Lawrence Durrell and elder sister of naturalist, author, and TV presenter Gerald Durrell, who lampoons her character in his Corfu trilogy of novels: My Family and Other Animals, Birds, Beasts and Relatives, and The Garden of the Gods. ![]()
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