Forever to Remain

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| image = File:ForeverToRemain.jpg

| caption = First edition

| author = E. V. Timms

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| country = Australia

| language = English

| series = Great South Land Saga

| genre = historical

| publisher = Angus & Robertson

| release_date = 1948

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| pages = 304pp

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| followed_by = The Pathway of the Sun

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Forever to Remain is a 1948 novel by E. V. Timms, the first in his Great South Land Saga series of novels. He wrote it intending to be the first in a 12-part series of novels. It is set in West Australia, where Timms had spent some of his childhood. Timms had written a number of historical novels but this was his first with an Australian setting.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article79676587 |title=NOVEL IS BASED ON EARLY PERTH. |newspaper=The Daily News |location=Perth |date=12 February 1948 |accessdate=17 October 2014 |page=3|edition=HOME |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39088823 |title=FROM THE BOOKSHELF. |newspaper=Western Mail |location=Perth |date=6 May 1948 |accessdate=17 October 2014 |page=14 |via=National Library of Australia}}

The initial print run was 20,000 copies, which was considered "colossal" in Australian publishing at the time.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59460838 |title=Australian Pianist Was "Arrested As Vagrant". |newspaper=The Sunday Times |location=Perth |date=1 February 1948 |accessdate=17 October 2014 |page=10 Section: Sporting Section |via=National Library of Australia}}

It was published in Britain as The Violent Years.

Plot

In 1831, a ship London Lass sails from London to Swan River settlement in Western Australia.

Reception

The Sunday Times said "It is grand writing, the author's facile pen building array of persons full of human emotions, some of them coarse, others refined, but all so artistically portrayed that they take on the cloak of reality in the reader's mind."{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59483151 |title=BOOK REVIEWS |newspaper=Sunday Times (Perth) |issue=2629 |location=Western Australia |date=11 July 1948 |accessdate=10 March 2024 |page=3 (Sunday Times MAGAZINE) |via=National Library of Australia}}

The Brisbane Telegraph called it "a lusty piece of Australian historical novel writing."{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article212769708 |title=Lusty Australian Novel Writing |newspaper=Brisbane Telegraph |location=Queensland, Australia |date=17 April 1948 |accessdate=10 March 2024 |page=4 (LAST RACE) |via=National Library of Australia}}

Radio adaptation

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=1949 serial=

The novel was adapted for radio in 1949 as a serial where it was read out by an actor.{{Citation

| title=HISTORICAL NOVEL WILL BE NEW MORNING SERIAL

| journal=ABC Weekly

|volume=11 |issue=1 |date=1 January 1949

| location=Sydney

| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1342104395

| access-date=2 October 2023

| via=Trove

}}

=1952 serial=

The novel was adapted for radio again in 1952 as nine thirty-minute episodes for the ABC. This version was recorded in Adelaide.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49479135 |title=NEW SERIAL. |newspaper=The Northern Standard |location=Darwin, NT |date=16 May 1952 |accessdate=17 October 2014 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article57699616 |title=John Quinn's RADIO ROUND UP. |newspaper=The Mail |location=Adelaide |date=24 May 1952 |accessdate=17 October 2014 |page=24 |via=National Library of Australia}} Timms himself did the adaptation.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230209894 |title=Author to have 2 serials running |newspaper=The Sun |issue=13,193 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=13 May 1952 |accessdate=10 March 2024 |page=20 (LATE FINAL EXTRA) |via=National Library of Australia}} Stafford Dyson directed.{{Citation

| title=Two E. V. Timms Novels for Radio

| journal=ABC Weekly

| volume=14| issue=20 (17 May 1952)

| location=Sydney

| publisher=ABC

| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1663808466

| id=nla.obj-1663808466

| access-date=10 March 2024

| via=Trove

}}