description: 'One of the greatest books about growing up' James Wood, Guardian'You girls are my vocation . . . I am dedicated to you in my prime'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 cr�me de la cr�me at Marcia Blaine School they are soon known, perhaps suspiciously, as the Brodie set.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 . . .'The most gifted and innovative British novelist of her generation' David Lodge, The New York Times'Spark's novels linger in the mind as brilliant shards' John Updike, New Yorker
language: English
title: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
titlecomplete: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
characters: Rose Stanley, Miss Mackay, Mary Macgregor, Eunice Gardiner, Teddy Lloyd, Jenny Gray, Jean Brodie, Sandy Stranger, Gordon Lowther, Monica Douglas
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Scotland, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Modern Classics
ratings_count: 52756
places: Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
publisher: Borgo Pr