Lose yourself in this glorious memoir of the island jewel of Corfu by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu.
Lawrence Durrell was a British novelist, poet, dramatist, and
travel writer. Born in 1912, he was sent to school in England and
later moved to Corfu with his family - a period which his brother
Gerald fictionalised in My Family and Other Animals - later filmed
as ITV's The Durrells in Corfu - and which he himself described in
Prospero's Cell. The first of Durrell's island books, this was
followed by Reflections on a Marine Venus on Rhodes; Bitter Lemons,
on Cyprus, which won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize; and, later,
The Greek Islands.
Durrell's first major novel, The Black Book, was published in 1938
in Paris, where he befriended Henry Miller and Anais Nin - and it
was praised by T. S. Eliot, who published his poetry in 1943. A
wartime sojourn in Egypt inspired his bestselling masterpiece, The
Alexandria Quartet (Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive and Clea) which
he completed in his new home in Southern France, where in 1974 he
began The Avignon Quintet. When he died in 1990, Durrell was one of
the most celebrated writers in British history.
'Invades the reader's every sense ... Remarkable.' - Victoria
Hislop
'These days I am admiring and re-admiring Lawrence Durrell.' - Elif
Shafak
'Our last great garlicky master of the vanishing Mediterranean.' -
Richard Holmes
'Corfu could not have found a fitter chronicler.' - Daily
Telegraph
'A charming idyll ... Delightful.' - Sunday Times
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