Castaway
  • Published: 30 April 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446463864
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 416
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Castaway

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30 Apr 2011
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27 Aug 1999
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One woman's year out.

THE SHOCKING STORY OF A DESERT ISLAND DREAM THAT WENT SOUR
'Writer seeks \"wife\" for a year on tropical island.'
The opportunity to escape from it all was irresistible. Lucy Irvine answered the advertisement - and found herself alone on a remote desert island with a 'husband' she hardly knew.

Lucy Irvine fell in love with the seductive, if cruel, beauty of that untouched Eden, whose power to enslave and enchant her never slackened throughout the whole of her amazing adventure.

Uncompromisingly candid and sometimes shocking, Castaway is her compulsively readable account of a desert island dream which threatened to turn into a nightmare of illness, thirst and personal antipathy.
Now a film by Nicholas Roeg starring Amanda Donohoe and Oliver Reed,
  • Published: 30 April 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446463864
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 416
Categories:

About the author

Lucy Irvine

Lucy Irvine was born on 1 February 1956 in Whitton, Middlesex. She ran away from school very early and had no full-time education after the age of thirteen. She has been employed as a charlady, monkey- keeper, waitress, stonemason's mate, life model, pastry-cook and concierge as well as having worked with disabled people and as a clerk at the Inland Revenue. She is the author of one novel, One is One, as well as Castaway and an account of her early years, Runaway. Faraway, her latest book, is her account of her year spent on a remote island in the Solomons. She has three sons and lives in the Highlands of Scotland.

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Praise for Castaway

'As remarkable for its degree of thoughtfulness, and unflinchingly unsentimental self-exposure, as for its descriptive skills...such dreams as stuff is made of'

Financial Times

'A savagely self-searching tale...she is a born writer as well as a ruthlessly talented survivor'

Observer

'Fascinating'

Daily Mail

'As remarkable for its degree of thoughtfulness, and unflinchingly unsentimental self-exposure, as for its descriptive skills...such dreams as stuff is made of'

Financial Times

'A savagely self-searching tale...she is a born writer as well as a ruthlessly talented survivor'

Observer

'Fascinating'

Daily Mail

'As remarkable for its degree of thoughtfulness, and unflinchingly unsentimental self-exposure, as for its descriptive skills...such dreams as stuff is made of'

Financial Times

'A savagely self-searching tale...she is a born writer as well as a ruthlessly talented survivor'

Observer

'Fascinating'

Daily Mail