Richard Bradford's The Durrells: The Story of a Family debunks the popular Corfu zoological myth as being ‘made up largely of lies'
In The Durrells: The Story of a Family, Richard Bradford takes a wrecking ball to the sunlit mythologies constructed by Gerald Durrell's bestselling Corfu trilogy – a picture of paradise aided more recently by the gentle Sunday-evening glow of ITV's The Durrells.
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