€2 off
The Girls of Slender Means
Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Tip: open this page in your browser (··· menu → Open in browser) so the shop remembers you came from buono.
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.
The cheapest new copy of The Girls of Slender Means is £8.99 at LoveReading.
Other editions
More by Muriel Spark
Cheap books UK · Libri usati economici (Italia) · Livres pas chers (France) · Gebrauchte Bücher günstig (Deutschland) · Cheap books Europe
Some links here are affiliate links: if you buy, buono may earn a commission. It never changes the price you pay.