The world my wilderness

Rose Macaulay

first published 1950 Virago, 1983 paperback 253 pages

Virago modern classics

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.

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World My Wilderness edition · 2018 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 9780349010014
The World My Wilderness paperback · 2018 · Virago · 256 pages · 9780349010007
The world my wilderness paperback · 1983 · Virago · 253 pages

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