The World My Wilderness Author:Rose Macaulay ISBN 9-86068-340-0. It is 1946, and the people of France and England are facing the aftermath of the Second World War. Barbara Deniston, seventeen, has grown up in the sunshine of Provence with her volumptuous, indolent but intelligent mother, allowed to run wild with the Maquis. Banished to England, Barbara is thrown into the jordered formali... more »ty of English life with her distinguished father and conventional stepmother.« less