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Whatever Happened to Margo?
- Author
- Margaret Durrell
- Narrator
- Polly Edsell, Roy McMillan
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 10 August 2023
- Run Time
- 9 hours 48 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Memoirs
What to expect
Brought to you by Penguin.
*With a foreword from Gerald Durrell*
In 1947, returning to the UK with two young children to support, Margaret Durrell starts a boarding house in Bournemouth. But any hopes of respectability are dashed as the tenants reveal themselves to be a host of eccentrics: from a painter of nudes to a pair of glamorous young nurses whose late-night shifts combined with an ever-revolving roster of gentleman callers leading to a neighbourhood rumour that Margo is running a brothel. Margo's own two sons, Gerry and Nicholas, prove to be every bit as mischievous as their famous Uncle Gerald - and he himself returns periodically with weird and wonderful animals, from marmosets to monkeys, that are quite unsuitable for life in a Bournemouth garden.
©1995 Margaret Durrell (P)2023 Penguin Audio
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- Author
- Margaret Durrell
- Narrator
- Polly Edsell, Roy McMillan
- Duration
- 9 hours 48 minutes
- Release Date
- 10 August 2023
- ISBN
- 9781405963008
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Memoirs
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.*With a foreword from Gerald Durrell*In 1947, returning to the UK with two young children to support, Margaret Durrell starts a boarding house in Bournemouth. But any hopes of respectability are dashed as the tenants reveal themselves to be a host of eccentrics: from a painter of nudes to a pair of glamorous young nurses whose late-night shifts combined with an ever-revolving roster of gentleman callers leading to a neighbourhood rumour that Margo is running a brothel. Margo's own two sons, Gerry and Nicholas, prove to be every bit as mischievous as their famous Uncle Gerald - and he himself returns periodically with weird and wonderful animals, from marmosets to monkeys, that are quite unsuitable for life in a Bournemouth garden.©1995 Margaret Durrell (P)2023 Penguin Audio
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