The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Author: Spark, Muriel

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Published on 4 September 2025 by Birlinn General (Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited) in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 144 pages
135 x 205 x 19 | 226g

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.