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“Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions.” With this ambiguous sentence begins Muriel Spark’s delightful novel ‘The Girls of Slender Means’, which starts on VE Day and ends on VJ Day (with flash forwards to the 1960s) #VEDay
May 8, 2025, 9:34 AM
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