whatever happened to margo penguin *with a foreword from gerald durrell* in 1947, returning to the uk 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.