The World My Wilderness (Virago Modern Classics) - Softcover

Macaulay, Rose

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0860683400 ISBN 13: 9780860683407

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group, 1992

Synopsis

Banished by her mother to England, Barbara is thrown into the ordered formality of English life. Confused and unhappy, she discovers the wrecked and flowering wastes around St Paul's, where she finds an echo of the wilderness of Provence and is forced to confront the wilderness within herself.

About this title

From the Publisher:

It’s 1946, and the people of France and England are facing the aftermath of the war. Banished by her beautiful, indolent mother to England, Barbary Deniston is thrown into the care of her distinguished father and conventional stepmother. Having grown up in the sunshine of Provence, allowed to run wild, Barbary finds it hard to adjust to the drab austerity of postwar London life. Confused and unhappy, she discovers one day the flowering wastes around St Paul's. Here, in the bombed heart of London, she finds an echo of the wilderness of Provence, then is forced to confront the wilderness within herself.

About the Author:

Rose Macaulay was born in 1888. As a young woman she went bathing by moonlight with Rupert Brooke, and she lived long enough to protest against the invasion of Korea. This novel was first published in 1950. She died in 1958.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0860683400
• ISBN 13: 9780860683407
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 254