A Far Cry From Kensington

The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)

Author: Muriel Spark

Mrs Hawkins, a fat young war widow worked for a mad, near-bankrupt publisher in 1950s London. Looking back on shady literary doings and a deadly enemy, anonymous letters, blackmail and suicide, the thin and successful Mrs Hawkins recalls how she came through it all…..Read More

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