Lawrence George Durrell was born on February 27 ... to the continent that led him to convince his mother that the whole family would be much better off in Corfu. It wasn’t too much of a hard ...

August rain lashes at the windows while the Durrell family shiver their way through an English summer. Mother (Celia Imrie, pictured) goes even further round the bend, Larry can't write his books ...

Feeling the depressing effects of a gloomy English summer, the Durrell family decides to pack up and move to the Greek island of Corfu in 1935. Lead by their widowed mother, 13-year old future ...

Mr Durrell was born in India in 1925. He spent some of his childhood in Corfu, which he talks about in his book My Family and Other Animals. He started working with zoos, and during his travels ...