Arty lives in a commune in woods of India. She is happy and has never wanted to know about the world outside. 
Life suddenly changes and she is forced outside trying to find her uncle and a friend of her mother's.
Can she survive and who can she trust? And what is the significance of the basement she is not to go into?
This is a beautifully written story  which will keep you enthralled to the last page.

I have noticed that this book has a wide range of reviews. Personally I loved it! The unfolding of the story giving us just a little more information at each turn was captivating. I liked Arty's character and found the people she meets on her voyage of discovery interesting, if not always realistic. I would particularly recommended this read to the teens I work with as it includes much which will interest their generation. Great read!

Wow! This novel will capture your heart and run riot with it.  I absolutely loved Arty's story of survival and discovery.  Emily Barr has done a stunning job of creating a story that not only pulls and the heart strings but leaves you guessing every step of the way.

This book is about Arty, who has always lived in rural South India, totally off the grid. When a virus kills all her family, her life entirely changes. And  she has to face The Real World for the first time in 17 years..
I really loved the concept and premise of this book. It's very interesting to follow someone who faces the real world at the age of 17. It was a good, easy going read. 
However, there were 2 things that prevented this book from being very good. The pace was just so off, it was very boring at times. And it got so unrealistic sometimes. 
It's just a shame because Emily Barr is a very good writer who has imagination. I just wish the potential of the story has been more utilized by this good author. 

Thanks a lot to NetGalley and the publisher for this free copy in exchange for an honest review.

Um well wowzer what a great book, the twists that  you need for a great thriller, there's suspense that is obviously required but it's not so much edge of your seat as opposed to escape from reality and a fantastic read, I loved it 
Arty has lived her whole life in the clearing with a eco family with no outside influences the only real that the monkey's in the forest. After the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the group's in the clearing all changes and it couldn't be a bigger change for Arty who was born their to Venus formerly Victoria (Vicky). No give aways so you will need to read it but there are great characters and all very believable even if at first you may question that. 
There is a honesty about this book that adds to the experience but doesn't rob you of escaping the real world that if part of the job of a great thriller, and a rare gift that Emily Barr displays displays with incredible skill. 
How could this book not be highly recommended.

What’s it About? Arty has alway lived in a totally off the grid clearing somewhere in South India. When some weird virus takes down her entire family she has to venture out into The Real World for the first time in 17 years...
What I liked A bit like when I read The One Memory of Flora Banks, I loved the concept of this - the whole living off the grid thing in what could be described as a 'cult-like' community and never having known anything else, ever, is fascinating to me. I liked the concept, I liked the story, I liked the stuff set at The Clearing, I liked the twist although I did see it coming, I liked Arty. I flew through this book also, which is a good sign. It's an easy read.
What I liked Less It was so unrealistic I just couldn't handle it. My eyes rolled so far into the back of my head that I gave myself a migraine. Arty has lived in a clearing for 17 years. She's never seen a car, or a television or used a mobile phone and somehow I'm supposed to believe that within days of leaving - days after, also watching her entire family die - she's picked up on the foibles of the modern world so well that she's ordering herself a coke in a cafe and knowing how to pay for it, she's catching trains and planning to catch planes and she's throwing around words like selfie and it's just so unlikely. Also she got herself a convenient celebrity friend who conveniently solved all her problems and just...no. Also the ending tied everything up way too nicely to be realistic and THAT ONE THING at the end, again: no. May I suggest Lisa Heathfield's Seed instead?

Thank you to Netgalley for allowing me to read this book but I don’t think I can finish it, so first I was just greatly confused by where or even what this story is fully about. As soon as I began reading this I just felt myself having to force myself to carry this on and to me a book shouldn’t feel that way, it should be effortless and I should want to read this but unfortunately I don’t. Maybe one day I’ll give it another shot at reading this book but right now I’m going to have to stop.

If someone had told me how my life could change so drastically in one moment I would never had believed them.
Arty has lived in the clearing all her life a small setting in India with her family around her, she was happy and loved by all at sixteen her life changed forevermore. 
After a dramatic event that takes place Arty has to leave the clearing and entre the world for the very first time. 
Even though Arty knew about the outside world from reading books she wasn't prepared for her life to change so drastically. 
The girl who came out of the woods has gone viral how will she be able to cope.

I was very surprised, on finishing this book, to read some pretty negative advance reviews, because I completely loved it. I’ve read most if not all of Emily Barr’s books, and I think this is up there with her best.

Artemis has grown up in a tiny community of eleven people, cut off from the outside world, in a clearing in a forest sixty miles from Mumbai. It’s a matriarchal society, close to nature, where the inhabitants have all taken the names of gods and goddesses. She has never left, nor wanted to.  But when something almost incomprehensibly terrible happens, Artemis, now aged “about sixteen”, is forced out of the woods and into the world the adults referred to as “the Wasteland”. (This sounds a bit post-apocalyptic but it’s just our world, and it’s not an entirely inaccurate description.) 

Meanwhile, running alongside Artemis’s story is a first person narrative from a person, clearly not doing very well mentally, who appears to be being held prisoner in a basement and plots escape. While there was clearly more to this than met the eye, it was an intriguing strand which I had various ideas about as the story progressed.

(With nothing to read in the basement except a Jeremy Clarkson book, hitting oneself on the head with it instead and later setting fire to it seems reasonable, by the way.)

I loved Arty’s character - although completely new to the outside world, with little idea about how things work and deeply traumatised by her recent experiences, she proves incredibly resourceful and resilient, though is also helped along by a fair bit of luck. (Turns out there are good, kind people even out there in the Wasteland.) As Arty, separated from her last link to the world of the clearing, sets out to follow the barest of instructions from her mother, even a Bollywood superstar known as AMK has a part to play. (I could only picture Amitabh Bachchan...)

I really adored reading The Girl Who Came   Out of the Woods. It was incredibly enjoyable and something totally unexpected near the end brought tears to my eyes. It’s not a thriller, so some readers
may be disappointed by that, although there are definitely elements of mystery involved. For me it was a brilliantly engaging read. The ending is maybe a bit too neat, but what the hell, I loved it.

I'm so sorry to netgalley, the author and the publisher. Thank you so much for my advance copy but I'm now a third in and I honestly can't stand to read anymore. It's honestly not like me to give up on a book but I am so, so bored of it that I can feel my life ticking away!! I don't think I've ever given up on a book before but life is much too short to continue reading this rubbish!! Come on editors, let's move the story along! I'm sure there is a great idea here, but I'm wading through treacle. Needs serious editing!

I am a huge fan of Emily Barr, adult and young adult stories. I enjoyed this story but it was not as much as a thriller as I would have hoped. However, it was, as always, well written. The surprise in the middle of the book made this story special. an very enjoyable read.

For many years Emily Barr has been one of my favourite authors so I was delighted to receive this ARC of her latest novel. I cannot say how disappointed I am for me it is just terrible.  It is boring in the extreme and a waste of a talented author.

Decent enough at the beginning,but I didn't so much enjoy it when they threw in social media and celebrity friends.
Also the ease with which Arty picked up on most things in the modern world seemed odd.
A little twist in the tale towards the end.
Interesting ideas,and all nicely tied together at the end.