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The Far Cry (Paperback)

by Emma Smith (Author), Susan Hill (Introduction)
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  • Paperback: 344 pages
  • Publisher: Persephone Books Ltd (22 Jun 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1903155231
  • ISBN-13: 978-1903155233
  • Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 14.7 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 61,530 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This 'savage comedy with a vicious streak' (Elizabeth Bowen in "The Tatler" in 1949) describes the 'second passage to India' of 'Teresa, whose elderly, willful father drags her off to spare her from the clutches of her mother...I can think of no writer, British or Indian, who has captured so vividly, with such intensity, the many intangibles of the Indian kaleidoscope; Emma Smith harnessed those intense impressions of her youth to give her story a quite extraordinary driving force' wrote Charles Allen in the "Spectator", going on to agree with Susan Hill in her Persephone Afterword that the book is 'a small masterpiece...beautifully shaped, evocative, moving and mature.' "The Far Cry" was Book at Bedtime on BBC Radio 4.


About the Author

Emma Smith was born in Cornwall in 1923 and was privately educated. In 1939 she took her first job in the Records Department of the War Office before volunteering for work on the canals; this gave her the material for Maiden's Trip (1948), which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. She spent the winter of 1946-7 with a documentary film unit in India and then lived in Paris and wrote The Far Cry (1949), awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for the best novel of the year in English. In 1951 Emma Smith married and had two children. After her husband's death in 1957 she went ot live in rural Wales; she then published very successful books for children, short stories (one of which was runner-up in the 1951 Observer short story competition that launched the winter, Muriel Spark, on her career) and, in 1978, her novel The Opportunity of a Lifetime. Since 1980 she has lived in Putney in south-west London.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Ravishing writing, 8 May 2003
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The quality of writing of this story about a young girl's journey to India is so sublime it is extraordinary that Emma Smith didn't write many more novels.

She has the rare ability to transport the reader into the very heart of her story, with descriptions that are spare but so colourful that you can almost smell and see the scene. Effortlessly you can conjure up the ocean on the journey and the overwhelming effect of India, at the same time feeling acutely the emotions of the protagonists in the story.

As I read this book I kept thinking what a good film it would make, but when I analysed the story perhaps there is not enough there to grip today's audience. I couldn't bear the book to end and loved every minute of it.

Highly recommended.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A gem, 30 Nov 2003
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I read The Far Cry only after it was republished by Persephone. It was quite simply the best novel I read last year - acutely observed and beautifully written. I have since bought several copies to give to friends, and without exception they have been similarly bowled over. One cried when she came to the end.

In reply to the reviewer from Banbury, I have been told that Emma Smith has written other books, but they were mainly aimed at children. And she apparently has one adult novel still unpublished.

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