The girls of slender means
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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.
The novel's ending reveals that the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds.
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