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3.5 stars
I’m not sure how much more “me” you could get than a tiny novella about upper-middle or upper-class girls of “slender means” living in the May of Teck Club in war-time London. Imagine a group of odd girls all thrown together working in the war effort, sharing one breath-taking Schiaparelli evening gown while doing “brain work” for a publisher or teaching elocution!
This is just barely more than a short story–only just a “novel” because the publisher deemed it so. But, as always with Muri ...more
I’m not sure how much more “me” you could get than a tiny novella about upper-middle or upper-class girls of “slender means” living in the May of Teck Club in war-time London. Imagine a group of odd girls all thrown together working in the war effort, sharing one breath-taking Schiaparelli evening gown while doing “brain work” for a publisher or teaching elocution!
This is just barely more than a short story–only just a “novel” because the publisher deemed it so. But, as always with Muri ...more
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Kathy Jo
marked it as dnf
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