An Education: Inspiration for the film, scripted by Nick Hornby - Softcover

Barber, Lynn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141044144 ISBN 13: 9780141044149

Publisher: Penguin, 2009

Synopsis

An Education

About this title

Review:

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

From the Back Cover:

'A cautionary tale, a tragedy of innocence lost' Sunday Telegraph

1960: A stranger in a sports car offered sixteen-year-old
Lynn Barber a lift. It changed her life.

The stranger charmed his way not only into Lynn's life, but also that of her parents. He took her virginity, whisked her off to Paris, introduced her to his charming friends, and even offered to make her his wife. But he was neither who nor what he said he was. And only when Lynn's parents were on the point of accepting him into their family, did she realise the mistake she'd made in accepting that lift.

Lynn Barber shows how this strange affair coloured the rest of her life - what she wanted from men and her instinctive distrust of others.

'Bracingly sharp. A chilling glimpse into the guileless limbo between girlhood and adulthood' Sunday Times

'Thrillingly readable, you'll want to finish it in one sitting' Tatler

'Moving, funny, frank' Evening Standard

'Magnificent, searing, honest' Mail on Sunday

'Absolutely marvellous, shocking, pacy, witty' Spectator

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0141044144
• ISBN 13: 9780141044149
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192