FARAWAY
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Author: Lucy Irvine
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 400
In 1983 an account of a year on a desert island, Castaway, was published and became an immediate bestseller, was sold in ten languages and made into a cult movie. It told the story of how 26-year-old Lucy Irvine answered an ad in Time Out ('Writer seeks "wife" for desert island') and went out to Tuin Island off the coast of north-east Australia with the much older Gerald Kingsland. Sixteen years later, in 1999, Lucy took her three children to a remote Pigeon Island in the Solomon Islands, to live for one year. She had been invited to visit by the intrepid 80-year-old Diana Hepworth who, in 1947, set sail from England with her husband Tom to look for a better life and found Pigeon where they lived together until Tom's death in 1993, and where Diana still lives. Lucy wanted to give her sons the island experience; Diana wanted Lucy to write her and Tom's story. These two 'wants' have resulted in an extraordinary narrative with its exploration of the need in people for faraway places and its search for an unattainable paradise. Lucy Irvine, wild child turned passionate mother, determined to do the best for her sons; Diana Hepworth, former Vogue model and Home Counties gel, unshake
Author: Lucy Irvine
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 400
In 1983 an account of a year on a desert island, Castaway, was published and became an immediate bestseller, was sold in ten languages and made into a cult movie. It told the story of how 26-year-old Lucy Irvine answered an ad in Time Out ('Writer seeks "wife" for desert island') and went out to Tuin Island off the coast of north-east Australia with the much older Gerald Kingsland. Sixteen years later, in 1999, Lucy took her three children to a remote Pigeon Island in the Solomon Islands, to live for one year. She had been invited to visit by the intrepid 80-year-old Diana Hepworth who, in 1947, set sail from England with her husband Tom to look for a better life and found Pigeon where they lived together until Tom's death in 1993, and where Diana still lives. Lucy wanted to give her sons the island experience; Diana wanted Lucy to write her and Tom's story. These two 'wants' have resulted in an extraordinary narrative with its exploration of the need in people for faraway places and its search for an unattainable paradise. Lucy Irvine, wild child turned passionate mother, determined to do the best for her sons; Diana Hepworth, former Vogue model and Home Counties gel, unshake
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: Lucy Irvine
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 400
In 1983 an account of a year on a desert island, Castaway, was published and became an immediate bestseller, was sold in ten languages and made into a cult movie. It told the story of how 26-year-old Lucy Irvine answered an ad in Time Out ('Writer seeks "wife" for desert island') and went out to Tuin Island off the coast of north-east Australia with the much older Gerald Kingsland. Sixteen years later, in 1999, Lucy took her three children to a remote Pigeon Island in the Solomon Islands, to live for one year. She had been invited to visit by the intrepid 80-year-old Diana Hepworth who, in 1947, set sail from England with her husband Tom to look for a better life and found Pigeon where they lived together until Tom's death in 1993, and where Diana still lives. Lucy wanted to give her sons the island experience; Diana wanted Lucy to write her and Tom's story. These two 'wants' have resulted in an extraordinary narrative with its exploration of the need in people for faraway places and its search for an unattainable paradise. Lucy Irvine, wild child turned passionate mother, determined to do the best for her sons; Diana Hepworth, former Vogue model and Home Counties gel, unshake
Author: Lucy Irvine
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 400
In 1983 an account of a year on a desert island, Castaway, was published and became an immediate bestseller, was sold in ten languages and made into a cult movie. It told the story of how 26-year-old Lucy Irvine answered an ad in Time Out ('Writer seeks "wife" for desert island') and went out to Tuin Island off the coast of north-east Australia with the much older Gerald Kingsland. Sixteen years later, in 1999, Lucy took her three children to a remote Pigeon Island in the Solomon Islands, to live for one year. She had been invited to visit by the intrepid 80-year-old Diana Hepworth who, in 1947, set sail from England with her husband Tom to look for a better life and found Pigeon where they lived together until Tom's death in 1993, and where Diana still lives. Lucy wanted to give her sons the island experience; Diana wanted Lucy to write her and Tom's story. These two 'wants' have resulted in an extraordinary narrative with its exploration of the need in people for faraway places and its search for an unattainable paradise. Lucy Irvine, wild child turned passionate mother, determined to do the best for her sons; Diana Hepworth, former Vogue model and Home Counties gel, unshake
FARAWAY