by Muriel Spark
Romantic, heroic, comic and tragic, unconventional schoolmistress Jean Brodie has become an iconic figure in post-war fiction. Her glamour, freethinking ideas and manipulative charm hold dangerous sway over her girls at the Marcia Blaine Academy – the ‘crhme de la crhme’ – who become the Brodie Set, introduced to a privileged world of adult games that they will never forget.