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Nancy Durrell was a woman famous for her silences. Anais Nin said 'I think often of Nancy's most eloquent silences, Nancy talking with her fingers, her hair, her cheeks, a wonderful gift. Music again.' As the first wife Lawrence Durrell, author of The Alexandria Quartet, it is perhaps surprising that she is an unknown entity, a constant presence in the biographies of Durrell and others in the Bloomsbury set, yet always a shadowy figure, beautiful and enigmatic. But who was the woman who was with Durrell during the most important years of his development as a writer? Joanna Hodgkin decides to retrace her mother's fascinating story: the escape from her toxic and mysterious family; the years in bohemian literary London and Paris in the 1930s; marriage to Durrell and their discovery of the 'Eden' of pre-war Corfu and her desperate struggle to survive in Palestine alone with a small child as the British Mandate collapsed. Amateurs in Eden is a fascinating biography of a literary marriage and of an unusual woman struggling to live an independent life.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Amateurs In Eden
• Author: Joanna Hodgkin
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• EAN: 9781844087945
• ISBN: 1844087948
• ID: 01235885
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Weight: 248 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 128 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. February 2013

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