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Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, and jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. The novel's harrowing ending reveals that the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds.

Chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the Best Modern Novels in the of London, is a taut and eerily perfect novel by an author has called "one of this century's finest creators of comic-metaphysical entertainment."

Contents

The Go-Away Bird

The Curtain Blown by the Breeze

Bang-Bang You’re Dead

The Seraph and the Zambezi

The Pawnbroker’s Wife

The Snobs

A Member of the Family

The Fortune-Teller

The Fathers’ Daughters

Open to the Public

The Dragon

The Leaf Sweeper

Harper and Wilton

The Executor

Another Pair of Hands

The Girl I Left Behind Me

Miss Pinkerton’s Apocalypse

The Pearly Shadow

Going Up and Coming Down

You Should Have Seen the Mess

Quest for Lavishes Ghast

The Young Man Who Discovered the Secret of Life

Daisy Overend

The House of the Famous Poet

The Playhouse Called Remarkable

Chimes

Ladies and Gentlemen

Come Along, Marjorie

The Twins

‘A Sad Tale’s Best for Winter’

Christmas Fugue

The First Year of My Life

The Gentile Jewesses

Alice Long’s Dachshunds

The Dark Glasses

The Ormolu Clock

The Portobello Road

The Black Madonna

The Thing about Police Stations

A Hundred and Eleven Years Without a Chauffeur

The Hanging Judge

A reissue of the 1960 novel which revolves around Dougal Douglas, evil genius and charmer who turns an entire South London community on its head. Murial Spark is the author of more than 15 novels including "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" and "Girls of Slender Means".

Short story from 'All the stories of Muriel Spark'