Lynn Barber's true story, now a major film of the same name scripted by Nick Hornby. At 16, Lynn Barber was an ambitious schoolgirl working towards a place at Oxford, when she was picked up at a bus-stop by an attractive older man in a sports car. So began a relationship that almost wrecked her life. Barber's fascinating memoir takes us beyond this bizarre episode, revealing how it left her with an abiding mistrust of men which paradoxically led her to a promiscuous life-style at university until she met her husband-to-be. An Education tells how she went on to work for seven years at daring (for the times) men's magazine Penthouse before beginning her starry days as the Demon Barber - Britain's most entertaining and most feared interviewer. The book ends with an extraordinarily moving account of the early death of her husband. Her writing is refreshingly frank and funny.
- ISBN10 0141044144
- ISBN13 9780141044149
- Publish Date 27 October 2009 (first published 25 June 2009)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 4 October 2016
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint Viking
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 200
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/isbn/9780141044149