Looking for the Durrells

 by Melanie Hewitt

I have really enjoyed the books in the Corfu Trilogy by Gerald Durrell and the PBS series based on the books.  I picked this up because I need something light to read these days.

This book is about a young woman whose father has just died and who broke up with her fiance around the same time as her father died.  She and her father used to enjoy reading the Durrell books and talked about visitng Corfu sometime.  The young lady decides to go to Corfu for a month to nurse her grief and also to remember her Dad.

While she originally intended just to be an anonymous tourist she soon makes several friends in the local town.  As part of her trip plans she wants to visit the various locations where the Durrells lived while they were on Corfu and also the house where the series was filmed.  The locals help her to get to those places.

While she is in Corfu she keeps getting messages from her ex-fiance.  She ignores them, having realized he was not the guy she wants to spend the rest of her life with.  She is attracted to a local young man, a lawyer who left a successful practice in England to return home to fish with his father and do boat tours for tourists.  It looks like romance might be blossoming but then her ex shows up.  She dismisses him.

There is another "love" story in the book.  The owner of a local restaurant, a widow with a young son, is in love with a local scholar who was the best friend of her husband and godfather to her son.  She finally tells him how she feels about him.

At the end of the book it looks like she and the young Greek know they love each other but there is no clear indication of what she plans to do.

So, the book is about following your dreams and your heart, why waste time being alone and lonely.  A nice story with lots of local colour.