Margo Durrell (Acting)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Margaret "Margo" Isabel Mabel Durrell (4 May 1920 — 16 January 2007) was the younger sister of novelist Lawrence Durrell and elder sister of naturalist, author, and TV presenter Gerald Durrell, who lampoons her character in his Corfu Trilogy of novels: My Family and Other Animals, Birds, Beasts and Relatives, and The Garden of the Gods. Margo was born in British India and brought up in India and England. In 1935, she accompanied her mother, Gerald, and other brother Leslie to Corfu, following her eldest brother Lawrence who had moved there with his first wife Nancy Myers. Her mother, Gerald, and Leslie returned to England by 1939 with the outbreak of World War II, but Margo decided that her real home was on Corfu and remained on the island, sharing a peasant cottage with some local friends. She met Royal Air Force pilot Jack Breeze later the same...Read More