# The Girls Of Slender Means

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- Authors: [Muriel Spark](https://www.bookquiver.com/muriel-spark)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4196-399-9
- Pages: 144
- Published: 2013-06-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'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.