The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

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The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie

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Penguin
Paperback : 26 Apr 1973

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'You girls are my vocation ... I am dedicated to you in my prime'

She was a schoolmistress with a difference. Proud, cultured, romantic, her ideas were progressive, even shocking. And when she decided to transform a group of young girls under her tutelage into the crème de la crème of Marcia Blaine school, no one could have predicted the outcome.

Introduced into a world of adult games and intrigues, the Brodie Set were honoured, privileged - in exchange for their undivided loyalty ...

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