Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions.
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(1963)
Girls of Slender Means
by Muriel Spark
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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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Fiction, Young women, World War, 1939-1945, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, England, fiction, London (england), fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Fiction, historical, Large type books, World literature, Fiction subjects, Fiction, general, English literature, Social conditionsPlaces
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The girls of slender means
1986, ISIS Large Print
in English
- [Large print ed.]
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