Whatever Happened to Margo?

By: Margaret Durrell, Gerald Durrell - foreword

Narrated by: Polly Edsell, Roy McMillan - preface

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

Entertaining

It was fun to hear about the sister of Gerald Durrell, one painted as a silly and impractical girl. Turning out to be a kind hearted woman and mother.

Fantastic narrator

I truly enjoyed this book. Could listen to many more of Margo’s adventures. I think the audiobook is the way to experience this book.

Not as good as I’d hoped!

Rather boring narrative with an over abundance of adverbs in every sentence. The narrator was not very convincing with her accents.