Review: The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark

“Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions.”

It is 1945 and the end of war is in sight. Britain’s young people are having to refocus their aims for a world no longer at war. For the girls at The May of Teck Club (an establishment "for the Pecuniary Convenience and Social Protection of Ladies of Slender Means below the age of Thirty Years" in Kensington, London), the end of war will effect no significance change: they will go on, each seeking their own p...