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The Girls of Slender Means Muriel Spark

The Girls of Slender Means By Muriel Spark

The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark

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The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark

London, 1945. The girls of slender means are the residents of the May of Teck Club, a genteel yet rather shabby boarding house established for the 'social protection of ladies of slender means below the age of thirty years'. The novel concerns their everyday affairs over a period of a few weeks before a shocking event transforms their lives.

This is one of the 22 novels written by Muriel Spark in her lifetime. All are being published by Polygon in hardback Centenary Editions between November 2017 and September 2018.

The Girls of Slender Means Reviews

'Hers is a rare get-on-with-it wit. Especially in a depressed society - one recovering from some collective crisis, like a war (or perhaps a pandemic) - those of slender means, to some extent everyone, must make a personal, moral choice about the kind of person they are to be'

* National Review (USA) *

'As I entered my teens, I developed a taste for more arch, snappy writing and discovered the joys of Muriel Spark. Wisdom and wit - ideal for an impressionable youth finding his way in the world'

-- Julian Clary * Daily Mail *

About Muriel Spark

Muriel Spark was born in Edinburgh in 1918. A poet, essayist, biographer and novelist, she won much international praise, including being twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The Times placed her eighth in its list of the Fifty Greatest British Writers Since 1945. She died in Tuscany in 2006.

Rosemary Goring was born in Dunbar and studied social and economic history at the University of St Andrews. She was the literary editor of Scotland on Sunday, followed by a brief spell as editor of Life & Work, the Church of Scotland's magazine, before returning to newspapers as literary editor of the Herald, and later also of the Sunday Herald. In 2007 she published Scotland: The Autobiography: 2000 Years of Scottish History By Those Who Saw it Happen, which has since been published in America and Russia. Rosemary's first novel was After Flodden.

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CIN1846974313G
9781846974311
1846974313
The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark
The Collected Muriel Spark Novels
Used - Good
Hardback
Birlinn General
20180208
144
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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