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Scottish BookThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Hardback)
Author: Muriel Spark
£12.95
ScotlandSet in EdinburghPsychological Suspense
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Add for £10The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is Muriel Spark’s classic novel set in 1930s Edinburgh, centred on the charismatic and unconventional schoolteacher Miss Jean Brodie and the group of girls she mentors, known as the Brodie Set. Her influence, ambitions and personal politics shape their youth against a backdrop of friendship, betrayal and societal change. For readers of literary fiction about character and influence.
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We think this remains a rich and provocative classic that shows how influence and idealism can shape, and sometimes fracture, young lives.
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Edinburgh, 1930, with the world poised on the brink of change. At the Marcia Blaine Academy, Miss Jean Brodie leads her classroom with glamour and certainty, a free spirited teacher who believes in the power of influence. Her guiding principle is plain: ‘Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she’ll be mine for life. I am dedicated to you in my prime.’
Around her gathers the Brodie Set, ‘her girls’, drawn in by her charm and her insistence that life should be lived through romance and heroism, with tragedy always close enough to make it feel real. Miss Brodie shapes their imaginations as carefully as she shapes their loyalties, deciding what matters, what is beautiful, what is worth admiring.
But beneath the bright surface of devotion, something darker begins to edge in. In a world already shifting, manipulation has consequences, and betrayal waits where certainty feels safest.
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