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Care to wander round British city in novel (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

rebecca

'novel' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'care to wander round british city' is the wordplay.
'to wander' indicates an anagram.
'round' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'british' becomes 'b' (abbreviation e.g. in 'BBC').
'city' becomes 'ec' (the City of London postcode).
'care' is an anagram of 'reca'.
'b'+'ec'='bec'
'reca' placed around 'bec' is 'REBECCA'.

'in' is the link.

(Other definitions for rebecca that I've seen before include "Du Maurier novel - Hitchcock thriller" , "Mrs de Winter (novel by D. Du Maurier)" , "1938 novel, starting: 'Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again'" , "Girl's name; novel title" , "Daphne du Maurier novel; girl's name" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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