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In 1999, Lucy Irvine took her three children to the farthest corner of the Solomons to live for a year on remote Pigeon Island. The invitation came from an intrepid 80-year-old, Diana Hepworth, who set sail from England in search of a faraway paradise. This work tells of both their…
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Lucy Irvine made her name with Castaway - a bestseller that was also made into a movie. Faraway is darker, gothic even. Invited by the Hepworth family to share the island "paradise" - Pigeon Island, in the Solomon Islands - to which they had emigrated from depressed Britain in 1947, Irvine cruelly dissects a dysfunctional family with dark secrets. "Paradise" is thoroughly debunked. She writes with perhaps unintentional irony: there are hints that the author's own private life is nearly as troubled as those of her unfortunate subjects. This may leave a feeling of distaste in some readers, and may…
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