found: A time from the world, 2013 :t.p. (Rowena Farre) jkt. flap ("Rowena Farre, 1921-1979 ... born Daphne Lois Macready in India, where her father served as a medical officer in the British Army. Her first book, Seal Morning (1957), became a bestseller and piqued the public interest in her life. Uncomfortable with the attention, she disappeared for three years ... A nomad living a restless life, after A Time from the World (1962) she only published one more book, The Beckoning Land (1963) which tells the story of a spiritual pilgrimage to India ... where she believed the Gypsies had first come from.")