The Girls Of Slender Means

Muriel Spark author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:23rd Jul '20

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One of Muriel Spark's best loved and greatest novels, now an Essential.

'It never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.'

The May of Teck Club 'exists for the Pecuniary Convenience and Social Protection of Ladies of Slender Means below the age of Thirty Years'. Nevertheless, and though there is a war on, they find the time between elocution lessons to jostle one another over suitors (some more suitable than others) and a single Schiaparelli gown. But can a love of literature, fine clothes and amorous young men save these young ladies from the horrors of the real world?

'Unsettling and exhilarating' William Boyd, Daily Telegraph

'An enduring genius' Guardian

One of this century's finest creators of the comic-metaphysical entertainment * The New York Times *
Muriel Spark's novels linger in the mind as brilliant shards, decisive as a smashed glass is decisive' -- John Updike

ISBN: 9780241989128

Dimensions: 181mm x 111mm x 8mm

Weight: 83g

144 pages