One of the BBC Arts 100 Most Inspiring NovelsEdinburgh, 1930, and the world is on the brink of change. Leading the charge is the glamorous, free-spirited Miss Jean Brodie, schoolteacher at the Marcia Blaine Academy, whose guiding principle is ‘Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she’ll be mine for life. I am dedicated to you in my prime.’ While Miss Brodie manipulates and charms ‘her girls’ – known as the Brodie Set – with notions of romance and heroism, tragedy and a cruel betrayal beckon.This is one of the 22 novels written by Muriel Spark in her lifetime.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-09-04
Mått129 x 198 x 21 mm
Vikt237 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor144
FörlagBirlinn General
ISBN9781846977183

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Muriel Spark was born in Edinburgh in 1918. A poet, essayist, biographer and novelist, she won much international praise, including being twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The Times placed her eighth in its list of the Fifty Greatest British Writers Since 1945. She died in Tuscany in 2006.Alan Taylor has contributed to numerous publications, including the TLS, The New Yorker and The Melbourne Age, and edited four acclaimed anthologies – The Assassin’s Cloak (2000), The Secret Annexe (2004), The Country Diaries(2009) and most recently, Glasgow: The Autobiography (2016).