The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie Av Muriel Spark

<b>''One of the greatest books about growing up'' James Wood, <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br><i>''You girls are my vocation . . . I am dedicated to you in my prime''</i><br><br>Miss Jean Brodie is a schoolmistress with a difference. She is proud, cultured and romantic but her educational ideas are highly progressive and even deeply shocking. So when she decides to transform a group of ''special girls'' into the crème de la crème at Marcia Blaine School they are soon known, perhaps suspiciously, as the Brodie set.<br><br>Introduced to an unsettling world of adult games and curious intrigues, the Brodie Set know that they are privileged. Yet there is a price to pay - they must give Miss Brodie their undivided loyalty . . .<br><br><b>''The most gifted and innovative British novelist of her generation'' David Lodge, <i>The New York Times</i><br><br>''Spark''s novels linger in the mind as brilliant shards'' John Updike, <i>New Yorker<br></i></b>