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The others on my shortlist were:
-Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (the protagonist distances herself from her usual social set and her location)
-Monsieur Monde Vanishes by Georges Simenon (the title character, a married successful businessman, one day gets up and leaves everything behind and vanishes, which is an extreme form of distancing)
-Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves (a memoir about what the author permanently left behind in England and distanced himself from when he moved abroad vowing never to return)
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