Castaway - Lucy Irvine

I won the book on Castaway from bol.com. The cover looked enticing, a part naked woman walking into clear blue seas. I knew that I would enjoy this book as it's an escape from normal life. The author Lucy Irvine actually replied to an advert from a man requesting a "Wife" to live on a deserted island for a year. She had never met the man before, but to live on the Island of Tuin , the rules were that they had to be married. Tuin is off the coast of Papua New Guinea . It was an Island soon to be their home for a year. Gerald (G) and Lucy (Lu) as he affectionately called her later on , only had the bare neccessities ...  Read the complete review

Castaway by Lucy Irvine How many of us have longed to get away from it all; to escape to a beautiful tropical island with no phone, fax or TV? Well Lucy Irvine was braver than most of us, she really did escape the rat race, for a year anyway, to live in 'paradise' - and this is her gritty account of her experience which shows that paradise isn't actually as nice as all that! The tale, of course, gained a high media profile with the film starring Oliver Read and Amanda Donahue - and while that had some merit; it really isn't a patch on the evocative un-putdown-ability of this book. From the start Irvine's narrative just ...  Read the complete review