A review by rhonaea
Mountolive by Lawrence Durrell

4.0

My preference of the three, Mountolive really engages with the character of David Mountolive in a way the other characters seem shadowy, living on undisclosed sources, amoral and hedonistic (heyho, nice but not really believable). Mountolive encounters the story for a different perspective and discloses more of Pursewarden’s suicide, substantiates the character of Nessie and Leila, and reveals the gunrunning of Copts to Palestine. It finishes with a wake…