The recent TV award winning adaption The Durrells left its 7 million fans with questions: What happened to the family - and what took them to Corfu in the first place? This book has the answers
Michael Haag knew Lawrence and Gerald Durrell (and met Margo), and is currently writing a biography of Lawrence for Yale University Press, which also published his Alexandria: City of Memory, a definitive study of Cavafy, Forster and Lawrence Durrell in the city. Haag has also written widely on the Egyptian, Classical and Medieval worlds and is the author of a dozen books including, for Profile, The Templars: History and Myth and The Quest for Mary Magdalene. Originally from New York City, he lives in London.
This real life story of the Durrell family is fascinating - Haag
brilliantly traces their footsteps in pre-war Corfu, England and
India
*Simon Nye, Writer, ITV ’s The Durrells*
Family stories are worth telling, and this one is fascinatingly put
together by Michael Haag. For few families present such an
entertaining patchwork tale as the Durrells.
*Daily Mail*
A lively and appreciative study.
*Times*
Given their talent for mythmaking, The Durrells of Corfu is
probably as fine an introduction to the real lives of this
remarkable family as could be written.
*Sydney Morning Herald*
Haag vividly evokes the time and the place with sumptuous
descriptions ... [he] has written a love letter to an extraordinary
family. As families and other animals go, the Durrells are a breed
of their own.
*Daily Express*
Haag adds sadness and depth to a story that is superficially golden
and charming, and which never stops being so. There is so much
lustre here that nothing can tarnish it; the complications and
grievances only make you admire the Durrells more. What a family,
and what lives well lived.
*Sunday Times*
These pages conjure the restorative, redemptive atmosphere of
sunlight on stone.
*Observer*
Praise for The Quest for Mary Magdalene:
[A] well-researched and page-turning history ... a narrative as
clue-rich as a thriller.
*Sunday Times*
Praise for The Tragedy of the Templars:
'Haag is a romantic pluralist, with an instinctive taste for the
esoteric, the independent and the defeated; and a corresponding
distrust of victors and orthodoxies.
*TLS*
Praise for The Templars: History and Myth:
'Here at long last is a history of the Knights Templar - and their
secrets - that you can believe in.
*Scotsman*
Given that talent for mythmaking, The Durrells of Corfu is probably
as fine an introduction to the real lives of this remarkable family
as could be written.
*Sydney Morning Herald*
An absolutely riveting read.
*The Mail on Sunday*
A brief but rip-roaring biography of the multi-talented Durrell
family.
*Daily Mail*
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