by Joanna Hodgkin | May 24, 2017 | Amateurs in Eden
In March 2016 I wrote an article about The Durrells on TV for The Times – which you can read here Perhaps it’s just as well that when my mother Nancy set sail with her new husband Lawrence in March 1935 they had no inkling of the legacy, literary and cinematic,...
by Joanna Hodgkin | Apr 3, 2017 | Amateurs in Eden
The Lost City of Z, directed by James Gray, was released in 2016. It starred Charlie Hunnam as Major Percy Fawcett, with Robert Pattison as a fellow explorer Henry Costin, Tom Holland as Fawcett’s son and Sienna Miller as his wife. Major Fawcett. The film tells the...
by Joanna Hodgkin | Sep 16, 2012 | Amateurs in Eden
Looking through an old journal just now for some notes I took on a book about memory (and I found them!) I also found a couple of entries written in May 1994, when Penelope and I visited Kalami with our husbands, staying in the White House. I did not read this when I...
by Joanna Hodgkin | Feb 9, 2012 | Amateurs in Eden
Today is the official launch day – but the party was on Tuesday. It was held at the Wheatsheaf just off Charlotte Street, a small pub with a proper 1930s atmosphere. Apparently it is where Dylan Thomas and Caitlin first met, so it is quite possible that Larry...
by Joanna Hodgkin | Jan 21, 2012 | Amateurs in Eden
Double page extracts from the book in today’s Times’ Review, with the picture of Nancy with the Durrell family at the centre. Larry and Nancy had found a little villa close to the Wilkinsons’ bungalow. It was on the hillside just south of Corfu town,...
