It’s a book about solitude, resilience and survival. Ultimately, it is the power of nature and the rhythm of the tides that offer both a healing and an awakening. A series of devastating events leads to the breakdown of her marriage, and Calidas finds herself alone and isolated, cast away from the places and people she knows. This memoir explores Calidas’s decision to swap city life for a remote Hebridean island. Each explores how the removal of the familiar can provide a challenge for survival, yet also a tantalising space for self-discovery. While the dictionary definition of a castaway is “a person who has been shipwrecked and stranded in an isolated place”, my list also includes books that examine why we may seek out our own isolation – be it on an island, a boat or a lighthouse. When the thin veneer of civilisation peels back, how do we behave? What matters the most? When I was writing The Castaways, a thriller in which a plane crash leaves a group of strangers stranded on an island in the South Pacific, I was interested in exploring who we become when no one is watching. Yet peer a little closer and a harsher reality comes into view – one of extreme isolation and the brutality of survival. A fter a long winter and lockdowns, the idea of being a castaway may seem romantic: a desert island panting beneath a high sun, nothing but endless ocean in sight.
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