[ilds] not so bitter

[Robin.W.Collins]

William

My experience with Durrell is limited -- Justine, Black Labyrinth, that thin humorous diplomatic book, Esprit de Corps, and Bitter Lemons. I read them all in my late teens or early 20s in the mid 1970s. 

Bitter Lemons was the first of his that I read and it was up to that time the most beautiful writing I had ever encountered. I will have to re-read it to see if I still think that. 

So, yes, get past those 40 pages. It's not action packed but an exceptional memoir with rich entertaining prose. I have read and started and stopped reading quite a few bad books. This isn't one of them!

Robin