The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

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“I just adore the unconventional and daring ‘Miss Jean Brodie’ and can’t help but feel compassion for her through all her flaws and eccentricities. Such a cleverly written book.” Ciara

Romantic, heroic, comic and tragic, unconventional schoolmistress Jean Brodie has become an iconic figure in post-war fiction. Her glamour, unconventional ideas and manipulative charm hold dangerous sway over her girls at the Marcia Blaine Academy – ‘the creme de la creme’ – who become the Brodie ‘set’, introduced to a privileged world of adult games that they will never forget.

Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie was adapted into a successful stage play, and later a film directed by Ronald Neame and starring Maggie Smith.