- Title:
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The Girls of Slender Means
- Written by:
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Muriel Spark
- Read by:
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Juliet Stevenson
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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3
- Duration:
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3 hours 45 minutes
- Published:
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May 01 2020
- Available Date:
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May 01 2020
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9780655667278
- Genres:
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Fiction; Historical Fiction; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Canongate audio
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'Spark, as usual, has perfectly plotted and peopled this giddy world of postwar delirium and girls' dormitory life'
Library Journal
It is 1945; a time of cultural and political change, and also one of slender means.
'Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions'
It is 1945: a time of cultural and political change, and also one of slender means. Spark’s evocative and sharply drawn narrative focuses on a group of women living together in a hostel in Kensington who face new challenges in uncertain times.
The novel is at once dramatic and character-based and shows Muriel Spark at the height of her literary powers.
'Muriel Spark’s novels linger in the mind as brilliant shards, decisive as a smashed glass is decisive.'
John Updike
'Hard to believe but Miriam is just as good as, if not better than, Maggie.'
Guardian