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Rose Macaulay
Rose Macaulay’s The World My Wilderness (1950) is set in London’s bombed-out cityscape. The protagonist is 17-year-old Barbary—a child of the war who spent her youth running wild with French Resistance fighters in France. Banished from her indolent mother’s side to the cold, formal home of her father and his new wife and child, Barbary makes her home among the wilderness of the city, in the company of the other outcasts she meets.
--Marshal Zeringue
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