Summary
‘One woman’s year out.’
‘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 ca…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780552146814 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0552146811 |
| Author: | Lucy Irvine |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Corgi Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 27 August 1999 |
| Weight: | 299g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 25mm |
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Critics Review
‘Fascinating’
‘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 *
About The Author
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 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.
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