Whatever Happened to Margo?

by Gerald Durrell (Preface), Margaret Durrell (Author), Margaret Durrell (Author), Gerald Durrell (Preface)

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  Paperback
  1996

  $4.18

  In 1947, with two young children to support, Margaret Durrell took the advice of her maiden aunt and started a boarding house in Bournemouth. But any hopes of a conventional clientele were dashed as the establishment was colonized by a host of eccentrics, comprising, among others, a painter of nudes, a battered wife, a chauvinist bricklayer, and a Maltese transsexual. With brother Gerald descending from time to time upon this extraordinary household, accompanied as ever by his travelling menagerie, the scene was set for a multitude of hilarious adventures. In such company, and with such tenants, the landlady herself could not long stand aloof, and indeed was shortly drawn into a surreptitious love affair with a trombonist.

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  Hardcover
  1995

  $16.03

  An account of the author's personal experiences as a landlady in post-war Bournemouth, written over 30 years ago and discovered by the author'' granddaughter. Illustrated with photographs from family albums.