The girls of slender means

141 pages

English language

Published Nov. 1, 1998 by New Directions Pub..

ISBN:
978-0-8112-1379-0
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5 stars

A dark turn

A witty and poignant novel-of-manners about young women in a boarding house in 1940s London. It takes a dark and tragic turn, which struck me as rather out-of-the-blue, but to a contemporary reader, or just one more familiar with the mindset of postwar England, it would probably have worked better; as the back cover blurb says, the funny giddy bit is "hiding some tragically painful war wounds".

So it's not amusing escapism as the beginning might suggest. But it's good.

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Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- Fiction
  • Young women -- Fiction
  • London (England) -- Fiction