My Friend Muriel: Jane DuncanBook II of My Friends. Janet Sandison, now a determined young woman of twenty with a University degree, takes a job with a cranky Pen Friend organization where she meets Muriel. Muriel is uncompromisingly plain, but clings like ivy. As the lively narrative unfolds, Muriel's story and Janet's diverge and interlace again, aided by a blushing curate, an eccentric she dragon and her severely repressed husband, by a shady confidence trickster and a suit of