Whatever Happened to Margo?

With a foreword by Gerald Durrell. In 1947, returning to the United Kingdom with two young children to support, Margaret Durrell opens a guesthouse in Bournemouth. But any hope for respectability collapses as the lodgers turn out to be a collection of eccentrics: from a nude painter to a pair of glamorous nurses whose night shifts, combined with a constantly changing list of male visitors, lead to neighborhood rumors that Margo is running a brothel. Margo's two sons, Gerry and Nicholas, prove to be as unruly as their famous uncle Gerald – and he himself periodically returns with strange and wonderful animals, from marmosets to monkeys, that are entirely unsuitable for life in a Bournemouth garden. A witty and captivating memoir from Margo Durrell, Gerald's sister, in which she tells her side of the story.