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The Girls of Slender Means Muriel Spark
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Apr 8, 2014 - There's a nasty little scene in her novella “The Girls of Slender Means,” in which a group of women struggle to escape a burning building through a small window. Feb 22, 2010 - I'm hoping to read The Girls of Slender Means and The Comforters myself. May 19, 2006 - Kensington between VE and VJ day. The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn. Feb 24, 2006 - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré. May 3, 2011 - Eithne Farry's Lovely Things to Make for Girls of Slender Means is one of those books you can judge by the cover--in the best of all possible ways. Nov 9, 2009 - The Girls of Slender Means tells the stories of several young women in the year of 1945 living in The May of Teck Club (pretty much a hostel) near Kensington Gardens. Mar 20, 2014 - But, if pressed, I'd go back a bit and plump for The Girls of Slender Means, by Muriel Spark – searingly witty, dark and truthful. Steph, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie was my first Spark and I loved it but there is an emotional distance in her work that is now apparent to me. Days of rationing and loose living, days of saints and sinners. Apr 24, 2012 - Muriel Spark's novels are deceptively simple. Jun 4, 2008 - The girls in the club are all living with next to nothing and making do – slender means – sharing dresses and borrowing things from each other to make the best of it. Jun 19, 2012 - I haven't read any of her books, though I just bought a copy of The Girls of Slender Means, after reading a review during the recent Muriel Spark reading week. Meet Nicholas, who when one first encounters him is dead in a foreign land, to all eyes apparently a martyr.