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Castaway

Castaway

by Lucy Irvine (Author)

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    Paperback 1999

    $16.97

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    Hardcover 1983

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Synopsis

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.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 416
 Edition: Revised ed.
 Publisher: Corgi
Published: 01 May 1999
ISBN 10: 0552146811
ISBN 13: 9780552146814

Media Reviews
'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 *
Author Bio
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 novel, One is One, as well as Castaway and an account of her early years, Runaway.She has three sons and lives in the Highlands of Scotland.