Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Blackstone Publishing, 2009
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Made available through hoopla
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (3hr., 19 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9781982466572 MWT10026847, 198246657X 10026847
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by Nadia May
Thus begins Muriel Spark's tragic and rapier-witted portrait of a London ladies' hostel just emerging from the shadow of World War II. Like the May of Teck Club building 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. But the novel's harrowing ending reveals that the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds
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