num_pages: 144
description: An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found hereLike the May of Teck Club itself, "three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit," the young women of London after WWII do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. Chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the Best Modern Novels in the Sunday Times of London, The Girls of Slender Means is a taut and eerily perfect novel by an author The New York Times has called "one of this century's finest creators of comic-metaphysical entertainment."
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: Penguin UK