The girls of slender means
About this book
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.
Subjects
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- england, fiction
- english literature
- fiction
- fiction, general
- fiction, historical
- fiction subjects
- large type books
- london (england), fiction
- social conditions
- world literature
- world war, 1939-1945
- world war (1939-1945) fast (ocolc)fst01180924
- world war, 1939-1945, fiction
- young women