FROM CASTAWAY TO OUTCAST; WAY TO OUTCAST Estranged from her family, crippled with pain and now a penniless recluse whose teenage son has just been convicted for drugs... the haunting legacy of Lucy Irvine's desert island adventure.

From: The Daily Mail (London, England) | Date: December 31, 2003 | Copyright information

Byline: ALICE FOWLER

ALL her life, Lucy Irvine has broken rules. It is what you might expect, perhaps, from a woman who famously spent a year on a South Pacific island with the writer Gerald Kingsland: an experience vividly retold in her book and film Castaway.

What is surprising, however, is the extent to which Lucy has persisted in defying convention - and the misery that her bohemian lifestyle appears to have caused her as a result. The lithe, sun-kissed, bikiniclad young woman - immortalised in the public imagination by actress Amanda Donohoe - is long gone, replaced ...

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