She was a schoolmistress with a difference. Proud, cultured, romantic, her ideas were progressive, even shocking. And when she decided to transform a group of young girls under her tutelage into the "creme de la creme" of Marcia Blaine school, no one could have predicted the outcome.
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Spark's most celebrated novel (Independent)
There is no question about the quality and distinctiveness of her writing, with its quirky concern with human nature, and its comedy (William Boyd)
A brilliant psychological figure (Observer)
All four novels give evidence of one of the most original and unmistakable voices in contemporary fiction.
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