The Girls Of Slender Means

Muriel Spark

'It never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.' The May of Teck Club 'exists for the Pecuniary Convenience and Social Protection of Ladies of Slender Means below the age of Thirty Years'. Nevertheless, and though there is a war on, t...

Amazing Grace Adams

Fran Littlewood

Grace Adams is one bad day away from saving her lifeOne hot summer day, stuck in traffic on her way to pick up the cake for her daughter's sixteenth birthday party, Grace Adams snaps.She doesn't scream or break something or cry or curl into a ball. She simply abandons her car in traffic and walks away. ...