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Durrells everywhere

Posted on May 24, 2017 by Joanna Hodgkin

Last year when the Durrells first appeared on ITV I wrote a fairly critical piece about it in The Times – and then enjoyed the series. With all that sun, sea, landscape and good humour, what did it matter that … Continue reading →

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Percy Fawcett and the Lost City of Z

Posted on April 3, 2017 by Joanna Hodgkin

The film the Lost City of Z tells the story of Major Percy Fawcett, an explorer whose life had a weird connection with Nancy’s. He had set out in 1925 with his son and a friend of his son’s to … Continue reading →

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Tracing Bee

Posted on November 19, 2016 by Joanna Hodgkin

Thanks to an email from Geoff Burrows in Australia, I now know much more about Nancy’s ‘great big blooming easy-going’ friend from her days at the Slade, Bee Falkiner. One reason it proved impossible to track her down was that … Continue reading →

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Pudding Times

Posted on July 11, 2013 by Joanna Hodgkin

The little book of handwritten limericks Larry produced in 1941 when he and Nancy were in Kalamata has come up for auction, triggering an extraordinarily prurient and silly article by someone called Jack Malvern in Saturday’s Times. I feel a … Continue reading →

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Bee Falkener

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Joanna Hodgkin

Some serious sleuthing is going on in New South Wales. I was contacted a couple of days ago by someone who is reading Amateurs in Eden at the moment and noticed the Slade friend of Nancy’s whom I call Bee … Continue reading →

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