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 latenight shifts combined with an everrevolving roster of gentleman callers leading to a neighbourhood rumour that Margo is running a brothel. Margos own two sons Gerry and Paperback softback