An Education

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“An Education confirms Barber as the kind of lovely, thoughtful and outspoken character you’d love to sit next to at a dinner party.”

“[Barber’s] a suburban girl who’s frightened that she’s going to get cut out of everything good that happens in the city. That, to me, is a big story in popular culture. It’s the story of pretty much every rock ’n’ roll band.”

“Candid, unsentimental and extremely funny. I read it in one glorious go, laughing and crying throughout.”

“Few pieces of journalism have been more riveting than the hatchet jobs Lynn Barber used to make of the profiles she wrote for the Independent On Sunday and the Observer. Waiting avidly for the next one, I used to marvel that anyone was fool enough to submit themselves to her merciless examination. And now she has written a book as riveting as the profiles.”

“Magnificent, searing, honest.”

“Effortlessly engaging prose.”

“Lynn Barber is known for her acerbic features and inteviews, and this memoir is no less candid, fun and down to earth…An Education reads like a gossip over coffee with an irreverent mother in law.”

“Grab the chance to read this entertaining memoir while it’s being republished alongside Nick Hornby’s film adaptation.”

“This pithy account highlights how the encounter coloured the rest of her [Barber’s] life…lightly written yet brutally honest.”

“Barber’s memoir is funny, bold, incisive, clever and interesting.”

“Barber’s voice is of course hugely confident—sometimes grumpy, often a bit snooty, very often funny and always extremely frank. Take this to the beach and be grateful for feminism.”

“An absolutely marvelous read.  The only thing wrong with it is that it is too short.”

“This book shares all of Barber’s best journalistic traits: it’s thrillingly readable, very light on its feet and you’ll want to finish it in one sitting.”

“The most riveting memoir you will read this year, comic and tragic by turns. A small masterpiece.”

“An insightful, funny and moving personal tale.”

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