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Joanna’s and Jane’s lifestyles. The Girls of Slender Means by Murial Spark is a novel about the girls who lived in the May of Teck Club during the year of 1945. There are many characters involved, but the one’s who caught my attention the most are Jane Wright and Joanna Childe. They represent different aspects of ideas, lifestyles and, also, have different perspectives on the “World of Books.” Joanna Childe was the daughter …

…that she can survive in the harsh, modern world no matter what. And, in fact, she did survived and became a women columnist later. In my opinion, Jane Wright and Joanna Childe were the most interesting characters in the book. Although they lived in the same time (after the second world war) and in the same place, they had different lifestyles. The only similarity between them was that they were using books for their occupations.