How a British writer ended up helping animals in Sliven Lucy Irvine’s year on a desert island once featured in a hit movie - now her LIFE organization fights for animal welfare. By Gabriel Hershman Peace is what she sometimes craves. But her nights can be surprisingly noisy. It's not the roar of traffic, of course, not here, deep in the Bulgarian countryside, a half hour drive from the city of Sliven. Instead, it's the thundering of horses' hooves that sometimes keeps the British pensioner awake in her caravan. Lucy Irvine is a writer and even a celebrity once upon a time in Britain. Now she lives in Bulgaria and rises at dawn to begin tending to her rescued animals; there are roughly 300 in total if you include all the horses, donkeys, dogs and cats under her supervision (some of which are in the community and not just in her yard). She keeps what she calls "tropical hours", especially during summer's scorching sun - the kind of heat that can drive tethered...
