Author: Muriel Spark
Year: 1963
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Classic, Historical fiction
Culture: Scotland
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9780811213790
081121379X |
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From the publisher (source: The Internet Book List):
"Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions," begins The Girls of Slender Means. Dame Muriel Spark's tragic and rapier-witted 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 harrowing ending reveals that the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds.
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