Crme de La Crme: Girls' Schools of EdinburghPaperback, 1 November 2010

Edinburgh was the place where Miss Jean Brodie taught her girls to believe they were the 'creme de la creme', where there was a real St. Trinnean's, and where an unusually large proportion of the city's girls went to independent schools. Alasdair Roberts has produced a social history of this special feature of Edinburgh life."