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The World My Wilderness
Rose Macaulay
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Description for The World My Wilderness
Paperback. Series: Virago Modern Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
It is 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 with the Maquis, experienced collaboration, betrayal and death, 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 ... Read more
It is 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 with the Maquis, experienced collaboration, betrayal and death, 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Series
Virago Modern Classics
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349010007
SKU
V9780349010007
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About Rose Macaulay
Rose Macaulay (1881-1958) was born in Rugby, Warwickshire. She studied Modern History at Somerville College, Oxford and wrote her first novel, Abbots Verney in 1906. She was introduced to the London literary scene by her childhood friend Rupert Brooke, and her friends included Ivy Compton-Burnett, Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, Rosamond Lehmann and Elizabeth Bowen. Macaulay became celebrated writer who ... Read more
Reviews for The World My Wilderness
Poignant and inspiring
Sunday Telegraph
The World My Wilderness ... had a powerful effect on me as a young reader, growing up in postwar London. Its landscape of bombed churches and derelict streets powerfully expresses Macaulay's sense of desolation during and after the war, for herself and for Europe.
Hermione Lee, Guardian
Sunday Telegraph
The World My Wilderness ... had a powerful effect on me as a young reader, growing up in postwar London. Its landscape of bombed churches and derelict streets powerfully expresses Macaulay's sense of desolation during and after the war, for herself and for Europe.
Hermione Lee, Guardian