The Girls of Slender Means

Name: The Girls of Slender Means
Author: Muriel Spark

by Muriel Spark

Novel set during wartime London in a hostel for young working women

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Muriel Spark

Scottish novelist whose wickedly satirical fiction is celebrated for its black comedy and theological preoccupations. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is among the most celebrated British novels of the twentieth century. Her compact, elegant novels are models of authorial control.

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