A propósito de "Prospero's Cell", de Lawrence Durrell,

escreve Jo Collen: It was Lawrence Durrell who had the idea to move to Corfu with Nancy in the winter of 1935. He had been inspired by his friend, George Wilkinson who had sent letters describing the warm sunshine of Corfu. Increasingly frustrated with “Pudding Island” and “the English Death”, Lawrence longed for something different and Nancy, an artist, was happy with the idea of a more bohemian lifestyle on a Greek Island. When Louisa Durrell, or “Mother Durrell” as the family called her, announced that the whole family would also like to move to Corfu, Lawrence was quick to distance them, but he didn’t exclude his wider family from his plans entirely. Lawrence and Nancy arranged to travel first to Corfu, with the rest of the family coming later. Once in Corfu, Lawrence and Nancy at first settled in a little villa in Perama that Lawrence called Villa Bumtrinket. When the rest of the family arrived, they set up home in The Strawberry Pink Villa close by, overlooking the iconic Mouse Island. Aqui fica uma imagem de Nancy, mencionada no obra apenas como N. Sobre ela, escreveu o poeta arménio Ivan Zarian (segundo ele próprio, "o maior poeta arménio"): "Dear Durrell: we miss you but most your beautiful wife. Dear Boy, yes, certainly I have immortalized you this week."