The Valleys Beyond
{{Short description|1951 novel by E.V. Timms}}
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| caption = First edition
| author = E. V. Timms
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| country = Australia
| language = English
| series = Great South Land Saga
| genre = historical
| publisher = Angus and Robertson
| release_date = 1951
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| preceded_by =The Beckoning Shore
| followed_by = The Challenge
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The Valleys Beyond is a 1951 Australian novel by E. V. Timms. It was the fourth in his Great South Land Saga of novels.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49012184 |title=Australian Life. |newspaper=The West Australian |location=Perth |date=26 January 1952 |accessdate=17 October 2014 |page=15 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
The novel is set in 1841 and features a number of real life figures as characters including Caroline Chisolm.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140329171 |title=HISTORICAL NOVEL. |newspaper=Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate |date=22 December 1951 |accessdate=17 October 2014 |page=5 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
Premise
According to ABC Weekly the novel, set in 1984, takes place, "in the shadow of the Australian Alps, on the New South Wales side of the Murray River, live three families— the haughty “Black” Olivers, the illiterate, despised Treggs, and the free-immigrant Martin family. Love and hate, violence and envy, madness and savagery were never far below the thin veneer, and when the two young women Tilly Martin and Meg Tregg battle for the attentions of young Everitt Oliver near-tragedy is the result. But out of the ashes of that near-tragedy E. V. Timms plucks the phoenix of future
happiness."{{Citation
| title=AUSTRALIAN NOVEL IS NEXT A.B.C. MORNING SERIAL
| journal=ABC Weekly
| volume=15| issue=4 (24 January 1953)
| location=Sydney
| publisher=ABC
| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1685477307
| id=nla.obj-1685477307
| access-date=12 March 2024
| via=Trove
}}
Reception
The Sun said it "descends to melodrama but the story moves at a fast pace and has a background of fascinating historical detail."{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230834271 |title=BOOKS |newspaper=The Sun |issue=2538 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=9 December 1951 |accessdate=12 March 2024 |page=31 |via=National Library of Australia}}
The Age said "There is a consciously, moral-making air about the book, and in un-likely court, scene, but it is a good, readable story of pioneering and its difficulties."{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article206199512 |title=RECENT FICTION-- |newspaper=The Age |issue=30,221 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=8 March 1952 |accessdate=12 March 2024 |page=16 |via=National Library of Australia}}
Radio adaptation
The novel was adapted for radio by the ABC in 1953. It played in fifteen minute episodes read by Lyndall Barbour.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article98282468 |title="Our artists have plenty of talent". |newspaper=Sunday Mail |location=Brisbane |date=1 February 1953 |accessdate=17 October 2014 |page=8 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C130538 The Valleys Beyond] at AustLit
{{E. V. Timms}}
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Category:1951 Australian novels
Category:Novels by E. V. Timms
Category:Novels set in the 1850s
Category:Angus & Robertson books
Category:1953 Australian radio dramas
Category:1950s Australian radio serials
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