The girls of slender means
Muriel Spark · 1963
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The Girls of Slender Means is Dame Muriel Spark's tragic portrait of a London ladies' hostel just emerging from the shadow of World War II. Like the May of Teck Club itself - "three times window-shattered since 1940 but never directly hit" - its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, and jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. The novel's ending reveals that the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds.
First sentence: Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions.
Book details
- Year
- 1963
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited
- Editions
- 19
- Pages
- 144
- ISBN
- 9780241963999
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