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>>/53/ >>/59/ "Where the World Turns Wild" by Nicola Penfold is about people trapped in a city due to a deadly man-made pandemic. It was published around the start of Covid-19. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48807670-where-the-world-turns-wild > Published February 6, 2020 The plot reminds me of Silo (2023). https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/w/where-the-world-turns-wild/ > Juniper lives in a grey, concrete city, controlled with an iron grip by its so-call saviour, Portia Steel. Fifty years ago, a group of renegade eco-activists released a deadly virus into the environment and the city built its walls to keep nature – and the virus – out. There are no plants, birds or animals, and everyone is taught to fear the wild. But, born outside the walls, Juniper thinks differently: she dreams of green things and freedom. Juniper and Bear travel to Ennerdale. JB? Wild Palms (1993) stars James Belushi. > Juniper and her little brother Bear decide to escape the city and undertake a dangerous journey across the wilderness in search of their first home, Ennerdale. It will take everything they have to get there and will challenge everything they think they know about the world around them. Ennerdale means "inner valley". https://www.etymonline.com/word/dale > Old English dæl "vale, valley, gorge," Junipers are coniferous evergreens like pines and firs. They are known for being particularly hardy. https://www.mckaynursery.com/evergreens/juniper-evergreen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juniper > Junipers are coniferous trees and shrubs in the genus Juniperus of the cypress family Cupressaceae. This was Nicola Penfold's first book (under that name, anyway). The surname Penfold refers to someone in charge of caged animals. https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=penfold > from Middle English _pin-fold_ _pen-fold_ _pun(d)-fold_ ‘animal pound’ applied as a topographic name for someone who lived by a pound for stray animals or most likely a metonymic occupational name for someone in charge of such a pound.