![]() ![]() We want to know what’s happening to Justine in Alexandria. ![]() His books, describing his adventures collecting animals throughout the world, were money-spinners to finance his next expedition.īut both were superb wordsmiths, and their books are page-turners. Gerald, after the family’s return from Corfu to England on the eve of the World War Two, began his lifelong career of breeding endangered species in captivity. Lawrence, in his mid-twenties in the 1930s, was destined to become a leading poet of his generation and then, as he put it, to ‘stumble into prose’ with the ground-breaking Alexandria Quartet (1957-60). Screenwriter Simon Nye could not have better expressed the different literary skills of the two brothers. She turns to him with proud love in her eyes and says ‘Larry writes to dazzle. You write to entertain.’ There’s a wonderful moment in the third television series of The Durrells in Corfu when Louisa, the mother of Gerald and Lawrence Durrell, has been reading a badly-spelled essay by Gerald, her youngest son. ![]()
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