Actually the older brother--Lawrence Durell--became a famous pornography writer, who was pretty popular in the 1960s and 1970s--we used to sneak his books out and read them when we were teenagers.--
The whole story of their childhood and the brave mother who took
them away from the dreeriness of London, England in those days, to
a fun island, where they could be who they wanted to be--even though
she had very little money, she was able to give them a fairytale like
childhood, which is priceless--i watched the show when it first came out
a few years ago, where you had to wait a week for each episode to unfold
it was a revelation and a wonderful experience...