Margaret Durrell

Margo Durrell
Born	Margaret Isabel Mabel Durrell 4 May 1919 Kurseong, Bengal, British India
Died	16 January 2007(2007-01-16) (aged 87) Bournemouth, Dorset, England
Notable work	Whatever Happened to Margo?
Spouses	Jack Breeze ​ ​ (m. 1940, divorced)​ Malcolm "Mac" Duncan ​ ​ (divorced)​
Children	2
Parents	Lawrence Samuel Durrell Louisa Durrell
Relatives	Lawrence Durrell (brother) Gerald Durrell (brother) Leslie Durrell (brother)
Family	Durrell

Margaret Isabel Mabel "Margo" Durrell (4 May 1919 – 16 January 2007) was the younger sister of novelist Lawrence Durrell and elder sister of naturalist, author, and TV presenter Gerald Durrell, who lampoons her character in his Corfu trilogy of novels: My Family and Other Animals, Birds, Beasts and Relatives, and The Garden of the Gods.

She wrote a memoir, Whatever Happened to Margo?, giving a humorous account of her experiences as a Bournemouth landlady in the late 1940s. It includes details about the lives of her family, particularly Leslie, Gerald, and her mother Louisa Durrell following their time on Corfu. The manuscript was apparently written in the 1960s and was discovered in the attic by a granddaughter nearly 35 years later. It was published in 1995.^[1]