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.
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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. Ruin beckoned, until one day she made an important discovery.
An Education , the opening piece of this fascinating memoir, was highly praised when first published in Granta magazine, and is currently being filmed by the BBC with a Nick Hornby script.
An Education features in the following genres: Biographies & Autobiographies, eBooks of the Month, Book Club Recommendations, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Recommendations
An Education is available in Paperback
An Education was written by Lynn Barber and published by Penguin Books Ltd
An Education has 182 pages
£14.39
