Finding "The Alexandria Quartet" -- Peter Leyland
Finding “The Alexandria Quartet" One thing leads to another as they say. Today I was thinking about how we choose our reading books and as is often the case with me a story came to mind, so here goes. When my wife and I used to visit her aunt Joan in the lovely town of Sherborne in Dorset I was always intrigued by the Faber editions of Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet residing in a corner of one of the many bookshelves in her large four-bedroom house. I always meant to ask if I could borrow them, but I never got round to it. However, after her death - she had had a long innings as the expression goes - and her funeral at Sherborne Abbey in October 2020, attended by just 30 mourners, the family was asked if they wanted anything from her house? Most people wanted one of the pictures that she had hanging on the walls, but I thought about it and decid...