The Durrells
The Story of a Family
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The Durrells
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Richard Bradford
A variously tragic tale of escapism and assimilation, Richard Bradford's The Durrells explores the truth behind the image.
The Durrells are probably the most celebrated literary family of the 20th century. Gerald turned them into celebrities with his tripartite memoir, beginning with My Family and Other Animals (1956) which told of his experiences with his widowed mother Louisa and three siblings during their time in 1930s Corfu. We know of the Durrells from their own writings and from the image of them created by TV, film and biographical accounts of specific figures. What we do not know is the truth.
Using previously unpublished material from the Jersey Archive, Richard Bradford unravels the lives of the famous four children of the Corfu era – Larry, Gerry, Margo and Lesli – as they find themselves geographically and emotionally divided amongst a backdrop of imperial decline and unrest. The children of moneyed colonialists, they were already used to being treated with aghast fascination by the island’s locals, and by expatriate Britons as a disgrace to the homeland.
Yet their story goes beyond the Ionian Sea, and The Durrells delves into the complex social and political circumstances in which the family lived, with seemingly constant threats of war and endangerment to both themselves and their natural environment.©2025 Richard Bradford (P)2025 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Bradford is a champion debunker of myth-makers
The Durrells is a valuable and necessary work. In demystifying the myth, Bradford invites us to think more deeply about the stories that families tell about themselves, and the fictions that become accepted fact.
Fans of the Durrells will beintrigued and aghast by this demystifying tell-all.
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