An Education

Lynn Barber

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English

Penguin
17 July 2009

Biography; Autobiography: general; Memoirs; Press & journalism

My life might have turned out differently if I had just said No. But I was not quite rude enough.

When the journalist Lynn Barber was 16, she was picked up at a bus-stop by an attractive older man who drew up in his sports car - and her life was almost wrecked. A bright confident girl, on course to go to Oxford, she began a relationship which, incredibly, was encouraged by her conventional, suburban parents and which took her into the louche, semi-criminal world of west London just as the 1960s began. Ruin beckoned, until one day she made an important discovery.

'An Education', the opening piece of this fascinating memoir, was highly praised when first published in Granta magazine, and is currently being filmed by the BBC with a Nick Hornby script.

By: Lynn Barber
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Film tie-in ed
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 202g
ISBN: 9780141039558
ISBN 10: 0141039558
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 17 July 2009
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lynn Barber studied English at Oxford University. She began her career in journalism at Penthouse, and has since worked for a number of major British newspapers and for Vanity Fair. She currently writes for the Observer. She has published two volumes of her celebrated interviews, Mostly Men and Demon Barber.