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Book Review of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Perennial Classics)

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Perennial Classics)
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Miss Brodie teaches at an all-girl school at which she is a pedantic maverick and is constantly under threat of removal. Small wonder! Her teaching methodology is highly unorthodox, as is her personal relationship with her young charges over whom she is bent upon exerting control. Miss B is also in her prime: a fact with which the reader is bombarded page after page. Hence, you guessed it, the title. The narrative is also front loaded with flash-forwards of the characters lives. (If I read once more about how Mary McM. dies in a hotel fire I think Ill scream.) Its a battle of wits between the head mistress, Mackay, and Miss B. Who will win out? That is the question.