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A Second Passage To India

Charles Allen THE FAR CRY by Emma Smith Persephone, £10, pp. 344. ISBN 1903155231 I n September 1946 a 23-year-old Englishwoman sailed for India in one of the first passenger......

Absconding From Perfection

Anita Brookner LIGHT YEARS by James Salter g 0 Hamill, £10.99, pp. 308, ISBN 1860466540 li 3g A nother novel, another marriage, another marital breakdown — but this is slightly......