num_pages: 148
description: "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.
language: English
title: The Girls of Slender Means
titlecomplete: The Girls of Slender Means
characters: Nicholas Farringdon, Selina Redwood, Jane Wright
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Novella, Literary Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 7023
places: England, London, England
publisher: Isis Large Print Books