Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is about a group of girls called the ‘Brodie Bunch’ who are enthralled by their teacher of many years Jean Brodie. The book is largely eventless, but somehow still so baffling and just providing sheer shock factor in the ending, as Spark is known for but I was really questioning how she would do it in this one. It reminded me a lot of The Dead Poet’s Society, a similar dynamic between the characters and circumstance and setting, in addition to being full of intertextual references. It was just a Dead Poet’s Society at a girls school instead, with frequent references to fascism too?? Not to mention, the titular isn’t left alone across the book. Like the lip descriptions in ‘The Driver’s Seat’, Miss Brodie repeatedly claims she is in her prime, and everyone believes her and re-asserts it to other characters, though there is never any backing toward wether this claim is true. I am honestly once again just left confused by Spark.