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4 unusual facts about Lucy Irvine


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Lucy Irvine (b. 1956), writer, lived very briefly in the Summer Isles Hotel with her father, who owned it and the Hydroponicum.

Gerald Kingsland

When Kingsland was 49, he met up with 24-year-old Lucy Irvine.

Lucy Irvine

In 1984, Irvine bought the isolated cottage Rumachroy, on the remote Scottish island of Tanera Mòr, where, most of the time as a single mother, she raised her children.

In 1980, Irvine responded to an advert placed by writer Gerald Kingsland and they became self-imposed castaways for a year on the isolated and uninhabited island of Tuin, in the Torres Strait between New Guinea and Australia.



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