An Education Book

Lynn Barber, an Oxford English Graduate has had a fascinating career as a Fleet Street journalist. However these memoirs, chart how her life takes a wrong turning from her father's ambitious plans for his daughter to be educated at Oxford, when she is lured by a sophisticated and good looking charmer in a sports car who offers her lift home. Lynn doesn't realise the mistake she is making, as her grey life becomes rapidly more glamorous and exciting than the dreary days of book reading and essay writing, and much to their dismay, she rejects the pathway of her school mistresses with the apparent blessing of her parents. It is the incredible incongruence of her parent's high regard for David, and her youthful naivety, in addition to her immense intelligence and self insight, that make these a most impressive account of the pain of female youth that is able to transcend the period in which it took place, and resonates powerfully today. This seductive story has been made into an Oscar nominated film by Nick Hornsby. Read More