The girls of slender means.

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.

subjects: 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 conditions

Places: England,  London (England),  London