Headmistress

Barsetshire in the latter years of the Second World War is a peaceful and gossipy place, but there has been one lively change. A girls'' school, evacuated from London, has taken over Harefield Park. Miss Sparling seems to be the perfect headmistress: she dresses as a headmistress should and is an easy and erudite conversationalist. Her new neighbours like her and her pupils respect her, but there ...