The Girls Of Slender Means Av Muriel Spark

<b>''It never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.''</b><br><br>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?<b><br><br>''Unsettling and exhilarating'' William Boyd, <i>Daily Telegraph </i><br><br>''An enduring genius'' <i>Guardian </i><br></b>