![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (Note – it’s difficult to review this without talking about character development, which really drives the plot, though I have avoided details. It is really a superlative book – as can be seen in this very long post about a very short book. If I had written this review and thought it all through before I wrote my Five Favourites post for 2021, it might well have been on my list. The novel is set in the early-mid 1930s, before the outbreak of war, and it covers politics, religion, love, Renaissance art, and psychology – all within 115 pages. It follows “the Brodie set”, a group of six Edinburgh schoolgirls taught by semi-liberated spinster Miss Jean Brodie for two years as impressionable preteens, and singled out by her for special attention and care throughout the remainder of their adolescence. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark, is the work that made her famous, and the first of her books that I’ve read (though it definitely won’t be the last). I’ll be honest – I only picked this little novella up from my shelves because I wanted to reach 52 books on Goodreads before the end of 2021. ![]()
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