Muriel Spark in Edinburgh. The journalist Alan Taylor joins the Brodie set on a walk around Edinburgh with Henry. They discuss The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark, visiting the site of James Gillespie’s High School (Spark’s alma mater and the model for Marcia Blaine school in the novel), as well as her childhood home on Bruntsfield Place and tracing the route taken by Miss Brodie and her girls across the Meadows and through the Grassmarket, Lawnmarket and the High Street. Penguin Modern Classics edition of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Sparkhttps://www.penguin.co.uk/books/56927/the-prime-of-miss-jean-brodie/9780141181424.html Appointment in Arezzo: A Friendship with Muriel Spark by Alan Taylorhttps://birlinn.co.uk/product/appointment-in-arezzo-2/ Alan Taylorhttps://www.scottishreviewofbooks.org/contributors/alan-taylor/ Muriel Spark Centenary Editions (Polygon)https://birlinn.co.uk/muriel-spark/ James Gillespie’s High Schoolhttps://www.jamesgillespies.co.uk/ Curriculum Vitae by Muriel Sparkhttps://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781847771025 Canongate audiobook of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, read by Miriam Margolyeshttps://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Prime-of-Miss-Jean-Brodie-Audiobook/B006K4FPGE  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.