Whatever happened to Margo?

Resource Information

The work Whatever happened to Margo? represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Whatever happened to Margo?

Statement of responsibility

Margaret Durrell ; with a preface by Gerald Durrell

Title variation

What ever happened to Margo?

Creator

• Durrell, Margaret

Contributor

• Durrell, Gerald, 1925-1995

Author

• Durrell, Margaret

Author of introduction

• Durrell, Gerald, 1925-1995

Subject

• Bournemouth (England)
• Bournemouth (England) -- History -- 20th century
• Bournemouth (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
• Divorced women -- England -- Biography
• Durrell, Gerald, 1925-1995
• Durrell, Margaret
• Authors -- Family relationships -- Biography
• Landlord and tenant -- England
• Single mothers -- England -- Biography
• Landladies -- England -- Biography
• Autobiographies
• Boardinghouses -- England | Bournemouth

Genre

• Biography
• Autobiographies

Language

eng

Summary

In 1947, returning to the UK newly divorced and 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

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

B

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

adult