A first Folio Society printing of this acclaimed 1961 novel, set in a girls’ school in Edinburgh in the 1930s. It first appeared in the New Yorker magazine and later as a standalone book, adapted for the stage and screen. Hardback, bound in blue pictorial cloth boards, with gilt lettering to spine. With six colour plates by Beryl Cook. Clean inside with no writing or marking. No slipcase. In very good condition. Published by the Folio Society in 1998. 152 pages.