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by Rose Macaulay (Author), Penelope Fitzgerald (Introduction) "THE villa, facing south, stood above the little town and port, on the slope between the sea and the Foret de Sorede ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 254 pages
  • Publisher: Virago; 1st edition (16 Jul 1992)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0860683400
  • ISBN-13: 978-0860683407
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.6 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 382,367 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Poignant and inspiring' Sunday Telegraph 'A wonderfully compassionate observation of human nature. No one can better describe the emotions of guilt and jealousy, or so exactly remember how it feels to be seventeen' Catholic Herald


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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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5.0 out of 5 stars Adventures in the ruins of London, 14 Jun 2004
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Fifteen-year-old Barbary has spent the war years with her mother in the South of France. Together with her stepbrother Raoul she has been a member of the Maquis and has had hair-raising adventures. Her mother believes that Barbary had something to do with the death of her stepfather, who was suspected of collaborating with the Nazis. She sends Barbary to England to live with her father, Raoul is also sent to London to live with an uncle. Barbary is bewildered by the formality of life in England after the years runing wild with the Maquis. Her conventional father is baffled by her, and her insecure young stepmother resents her. She and Raoul explore the ruins left by the bombing, where they find a world inhabited by black marketeers and deserters, a world they understand, where the London police take the place of the Gestapo. Barbary longs to be reconciled with her mother, whom she adores, but it seems it is too late. This is an absolutely marvellous book, postwar London is brought vividly to life, the adventures of Barbary and Raoul among the ruins are gripping, and their complete incomprehension of the polite, formal and civilised people among whom they are forced to live is both comical and poignant.
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