The Durrells get new biography that 'they would enjoy'

Account of the ‘knockabout’ life of the famous family will cover the years in Corfu recently dramatised for TV, and include their troubled background

A different light is due to be shed on the idyllic ramblings of Gerald Durrell and his eccentric family in Corfu in a new biography of the Durrells, due out next year.

Michael Haag, who knew Lawrence and Gerald Durrell and who is also currently writing a biography of Lawrence for Yale University Press, has been signed by Profile to write a biography of the Durrell family before, during and after their time in Corfu. Their sojourn on the island was covered in Gerald Durrell’s much-loved Corfu trilogy My Family and Other Animals, Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods, which chart his adventures and explorations there, as well as in Lawrence Durrell’s diary of life on the island, Prospero’s Cell.

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