Beautifully packaged reissue of one of Muriel Spark's best loved
novels, The Girls of Slender Means 'Long ago in 1945 all the nice
people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions' In the May of
Teck Club - a London hostel 'three times window shattered since
1940 but never directly hit' - the young lady residents do their
best to act as if the war never happened. They practice elocution,
and jostle one another over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown.
But behind the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations
they hide some tragically painful secrets and wounds.'You girls are
my vocation . . . I am dedicated to you in my prime' 'Reading the
novel as a young woman was a random gift; rereading it today is to
encounter the rarest of fiction and to appreciate the early and
enduring genius of Muriel Spark' Carol Shields, Guardian 'One of
Spark's most evocative novels' Anne Taylor Muriel Spark was born
and educated in Edinburgh. She was active in the field of creative
writing since 1950, when she won a short-story writing competition
in the Observer, and her many subsequent novels include Memento
Mori (1959), The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960), The Prime of Miss
Jean Brodie (1961), The Girls of Slender Means (1963) and Aiding
and Abetting (2000). She also wrote plays, poems, children's books
and biographies. She became Dame Commander of the British Empire in
1993, and died in 2006.
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