Winner of the RNA Romantic Film of the Year Award 2010.
A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.
An Education has been made into a film by BBC Films and starring Carey Mulligan & Peter Sarsgaard.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 12 November 2009.
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.
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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.
An Education features in the following genres: Biographies & Autobiographies, eBooks of the Month, Book Club Recommendations, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Recommendations
Paperback. £14.39, down from the £15.99 cover price. Print on Demand / Special Order.
An Education was written by Lynn Barber and published by Penguin Books Ltd
An Education has 182 pages
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