Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions.
An edition of The girls of slender means
(1963)
The girls of slender means.
[1st ed.]
by Muriel Spark
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The zany lives and morals of the girls of the "May of Teck Club", a haven for young ladies, in 1945, when "all the nice people of England were poor, allowing for exceptions".
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The girls of slender means
1986, ISIS Large Print
in English
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1850890536 9781850890539
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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.
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