The Girls of Slender Means [Paperback]

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 harrowing ending reveals that the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds.Spark writes with a light comic touch, but there's an undertone of a kind of existential desperation.