His second marriage, to native Alexandrian Yvette (Eve) Cohen in 1947, produced a daughter, Sappho, named after the Greek poet. Eve was Durrell’s muse for Justine , the heroine of the first book ...

Gerald Durrell with a cheetah named Paula in 1967. ... Eve Cohen, fictionalised as Justine. Rated as one of the finest novelists of the late 20th century, he was up for the Nobel Prize in 1962, ...