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The far cry

Emma Smith

1949241 pagesabout 4–6 hours
1949
first published
  • 1949MacGibbon & Kee · 279 pages · ENG
  • 1950Random House · 248 pages · ENG
  • 1951Readers Union · 241 pages · ENG
  • 2002Persephone Books · 344 pages · ENGISBN 9781903155233

This 'savage comedy with a vicious streak' describes the 'second passage to India' of 'Teresa, whose elderly, willful father drags her off to spare her from the clutches of her mother.

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