num_pages: 254
description: 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.
language: English
title: The World My Wilderness
titlecomplete: The World My Wilderness (Virago Modern Classics)
genres: Fiction, France, War, British Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, World War II
ratings_count: 396
places: United Kingdom
publisher: Little, Brown Book Group