'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 they find the time between elocution lessons to jostle one another
over suitors (some more suitable than others) and a single Schiaparelli gown. But can a love of
literature fine clothes and amorous young men save these young ladies from the horrors of the
real world?'Unsettling and exhilarating' William Boyd Daily Telegraph 'An enduring genius'
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