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Castaway
Lucy Irvine
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Description for Castaway
Paperback. This is an account of how the author answered an advertisement for a "wife" to spend a year on a tropical island with a writer, and subsequently found herself alone on a remote desert island with a "husband" she hardly knew. Num Pages: 412 pages, maps. BIC Classification: BG; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 300.
'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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
412
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780552146814
SKU
V9780552146814
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-4
About Lucy Irvine
Lucy Irvine was born in 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.She has also worked with disabled people and as a clerk at the Inland Revenue.Lucy Irvine is the author of a ... Read more
Reviews 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
Financial Times
'A savagely self-searching tale...she is a born writer as well as a ruthlessly talented survivor'
Observer
'Fascinating'
Daily Mail