A Land Rover Named Lucy
Reviewed By Ian Banks May 12, 2026
Author Andrew Edwards with Brooke Strachan
Distributor: Amazon AU
ISBN: 9781923514607
Publisher: Big Sky Publisers
Release Date: 4 May 2026
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Three friends. One Land Rover. A journey that changed everything.
Lucy the Land Rover was never built to go on an adventure, she was built to be a workhorse, to travel country miles and live a long, retired life rusting away, her best years far behind her, until she was not.
Purchased by a renowned wildlife artist living in West Africa, Lucy needed to be delivered to her new home. Andrew Edwards agreed to deliver her for his cousin and as a test car driver, also a man who had spent a little time in the military, he along with two mechanically minded friends, decided to drive Lucy to West Africa.
What started out to be a something straight forward, because let’s face it could possibly go wrong, turned into an adventure none of them foresaw as they confronted breakdowns, Bedouin tribes out for blood, illness, extreme cold, being shot at, and wounded, and miles of bureaucratic red tape, that stretches their friendship to the very limit.
Told almost in journal format, Andrew looks back on a time in his life during the 1980’s when the world was a vastly different place, where life could be a very fragile thing, where people with little still gave to try and save a life.
Illness eventually saw the trio parting ways, with Andrew left in an African hospital, barely alive facing the very real fact that he may not survive. He was eventually evacuated to Britain, arriving in such an emaciated state his family did not recognise him.
A Land Rover Named Lucy is a journey into far more than an adventure, it is a masterclass in just what the human spirit can endure told with wit, realism and even all these many years later, a very real sense of adventure.