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“As an American, despite being an incurable Anglophile, I had never heard of Lynn Barber and her wicked penmanship until I heard that the lovely film An Education was based on her teenage years. Apparently she had written a short piece about her relationship with an older and mysterious man in some newspaper or magazine and Nick Hornby developed it into the script (with a few fictional enhancements). Barber then developed this short memoir adding her years in journalism — she began as a fact checker during at London-based Penthouse in its early days — and her romance with the man she would marry and have two daughters with only to see him succumb to cancer. Perhaps a good example of her writing that escaped me until now, this short little collection of her life and work is fantastically written, cheeky and human. ”
