... The girls in the May of Teck knew, above all how to use the time. Nicholas, who was no longer any young man, he greatly impressed the emotional swings that lived there, week after week.
Impedimenta has started the year with 'The Girls of Slender Means' of Muriel Spark, a tragicomedy, light authentic English flavor. Exquisite
choice.
Exquisite edition. Exquisite
reading.
The theme of this tragicomedy English is a budding writer, Nicholas Farringdon , who often visits the Club May of Teck, the guest house that opened the Queen Mary before marrying King George V, for girls of limited means no more than 30 years. Nicholas Farringdon is fascinated by the world of women, women who reinterpreted and take the life with joy and courage and face austerity, poverty, their provincialism, their posture, their composure, their clothing with freshness in London 1945 a London devastated by World War II. The fascination she feels for all leads one to the other traveling from one floor to the customs of these girls, some in search of work, others in search of a job, others in search of an ambition, others search of a husband, others in search of pleasure. Death years after Nicholas Farringdon makes Jane Wright, one of those girls who was then working in a publishing house, and now works as a journalist for a magazine, go to the meeting last, all guests Club May of Teck of that period, and the book becomes the witness of an era plagued by bombs and war but not in that place female breaking even for a moment of laughter. Muriel Spark created a gallery of wonderful characters and a part is itself unique in its atmosphere, its tragedy and its comedy. 'The Girls of Slender Means' is a piece of literature as life itself: at times light and at times unbearably fierce.
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