The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

She has established herself in the course of one sparkling lustrum. Miss Spark is indeed an author to be grateful for in our plutonian ageJoan Davenport, The Observer

Each of her sentences fulfils perfectly its own purpose, and there is never an extraneous joke. Miss Brodie makes excellent readingKarl Miller, New Statesmen

No other woman writer of this generation has simultaneously attracted so much notice from the critics and achieved so much success with the public at largeFrancis King, Time and Tide

Deliciously witty and eminently a ‘must’John O’ London’s