- Fiction, historical, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, France, fiction, London (england), fiction
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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Grave, contemplative, earnest and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Rose Macaulay
- First published
- 1950
- Pages
- 254
- Publisher
- Collins, Little, Brown, Book Club
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780349010007
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“THE villa, facing south, stood above the little town and port, on the slope between the sea and the Foret de Sorede.”
An English writer, most noted for her award-winning novel <i>The Towers of Trebizond</i>, about a small Anglo-Catholic group crossing Turkey by camel (<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Macaulay>Wikipedia</a>).
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