'Amateurs in Eden', the Corfu Connection

This book, Amateurs in Eden, by Joanna Hodgkin, has been recommended by Corfiot friends.

Here's a review from The Independent

and one from The Guardian

Conversation with the author (Durrell 2012 website)

Update: I have just read it, and I also recommend it most highly. Here's one of the rarer items illustrated and cited in the book, a limerick about Corfu:

Durrell's friend, George Seferis, seems to have had a similar sense of humour, to judge by this wooden cabinet, hand-painted by Seferis: