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.
Genres
- 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
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