Louisa decides to make money by selling produce at the local market, where she is not very successful but meets dashing Englishman Hugh Jarvis. A less welcome encounter i ...

Larry is delighted his novel has been accepted for publication but dismayed by his family's apathy as Margo is more interested in the sexy priest and Gerry is obsessed wi ...

Louisa goes to see Larry in his grim flat though he has another, carnal, visitor in Vasilia and almost misses his mother's birthday picnic. This is not a happy occasion a ...

A storm engulfs the island, cutting off the electricity and trapping the family, including the mumps-stricken Larry, in the house - along with the visiting aunt Hermione ...

Larry is horrified when Vasilia demands he propose to her, while Gerald's new tutor Donald tries to impress Margo by being 'exotic'. Louisa feels that Hugh and the marrie ...

Louisa's English friend Florence, wife of local doctor Petrides, and Leonora, the daughter of the Durrells' domestic. Lugaretzia, are both heavily pregnant though Louisa ...

Set in 1935 when the Englishwoman Louisa Durrell, whose life had fallen apart, decided to move from Bournemouth to the Greek island of Corfu. Her husband had died some ye ...