

The idea of being a castaway with limited supplies, food and other necessities is terrifying. She tells us exactly what happened while they were on the island. We hear Lori’s story from the ‘then’ point of view. Erin persuades the magazine to fund a trip to Fiji so she can interview the pilot about what really happened, but in actual fact she only cares about what happened to Lori. Two years after the crash, the pilot, Mike Brass, turns up having lived and worked on another small island, but he is sick and dying. The Castaways is told from two points of view – then and now. Then the small plane crashes on a remote, isolated island and the real nightmare begins. But the night before, they row and when Lori boards the plane, Erin fails to show up. They decide they both need a fresh start so they book a holiday to Fiji, staying on a beautiful, luxury, island resort. Lori says her sister still lives like a student and needs to take her life in hand. She has no-one in her life apart from Lori. A double blow that Pete is leaving her to have a baby with someone else.Įrin works for a magazine. Lori wants nothing more that to be a mother, but after several rounds of IVF she realises it wasn’t meant to be.

Then Lori’s husband Pete tells her he is leaving to be with someone else and that someone is expecting his baby. They have always been close, even more so after losing both parents. I just wanted keep on reading till I found out what happened.Įrin and Lori are sisters.

What an exciting book, so full of tension.
