
The Girls of Slender Means
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Narrated by:
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Wanda McCaddon
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By:
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Muriel Spark
"Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions."
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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Funny, moving, brilliant
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A Spark in the Dark
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Optimistic Narration
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Subtle humor
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Narrator and weave of storyline
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Perfect for Nostalgia
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Only imagine if this book had had the right reader: the amazing reverberating Welsh voice of the parson's daughter, the avidity of the journalist, and all the rest; coming to life as they did in Ms. Spark's imagination.
Wanda McCaddon is not up to it.
Her thin, undifferentiated voice expressed none of the hope, passion, and tragedy of the story.
Her intonations should be reserved for the static, the domestic, and the placid in literature.
Please, Audible, try this one again!
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