An Island to Oneself: Six Years Alone on a Desert Island Spain ”—Washington Post

”—Washington Post

Darkly compelling and twisty psychological drama from a talented new Australian author

or month come to think of it

delicious-smelling spices

In His Masterly Pen

An Island to Oneself: Six Years Alone on a Desert Island Spain ”—Washington PostA re issue of the long out of print 1966 classic, this is the story of one New Zealander brave enough to do what we have all now and then dreamed of doing go and live alone on a desert island. In his youth an ordinary seaman and for years a shopkeeper in the Cook Islands, Tom Neale was in his fifties when he turned his back on society to live alone on a South Pacific atoll named Suwarrow. With him he took nothing but a couple of cats, some bric a brac