An Education by Lynn Barber - ISBN: 9780141039558
Paperback
Bright girl, older man, reckless choices, almost a ruined education.

An Education

  • Paperback

    224 pages

  • Release Date

    17 July 2009

Summary

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…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141039558
ISBN-10:0141039558
Author:Lynn Barber
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:224
Edition:Film tie-in ed
Release Date:17 July 2009
Weight:202g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 16mm
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Critics Review

Candid, unsentimental and extremely funny. I read it in one glorious go, laughing and crying throughout.

Candid, unsentimental and extremely funny. I read it in one glorious go, laughing and crying throughout. – Zoe Heller

About The Author

Lynn Barber

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.

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