In this quintessential Spark novella, The Girls of Slender Means, the narrative details young women living without their families in order to try and forge a career in the city in the immediate post-war London of 1945.

Although unmarked, this copy belonged to writer and critic Neville Braybrooke. Spark had a close friendship with both Neville and his wife June (the novelist Isobel English), and tucked in is a handsome poodle postcard Braybrooke congratulating him on the success of a recent project.

London: Macmillan, 1963. First edition. 182 pages. 20 x 13 x 2.5. Hardback. Slight discolouration and scuffs dust jacket edges. Very good in very good dust jacket. Postcard to Neville Braybrooke laid in.