Description
Product ID: | 9780141039558 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | An Education |
Authors: | Author: Lynn Barber |
Page Count: | 224 |
Subjects: | Memoirs, Memoirs, News media and journalism, Press & journalism |
Description: | Select Guide Rating When the journalist Lynn Barber was 16, she was picked up at a bus-stop by an older man who drew up in his sports car - and her life was almost wrecked. A confident girl on course to go to Oxford, she began a relationship which was encouraged by her suburban parents that took her into the semi-criminal world of west London just as the 1960s began. 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. |
Imprint Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2009-06-25 |