When Lynn Barber was sixteen, a stranger in a maroon sports car pulled up beside her as she was on her way home from school and offered her a ride. It was the beginning of a long journey from innocence to a precocious experience—an affair with an older man that would change her life. Barber's seducer left her with a taste for luxury hotels, posh restaurants and trips abroad—expensive habits that she managed to support in later life as a successful London journalist whose barbed interviews both terrorized and fascinated her smart-set subjects.
A poignant, shockingly candid account of the stages in a literary life—from promiscuity at Oxford to a stint at Penthouse to a complex marriage that endured—An Education is a classic of English memoir.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length4 hrs 45 mins
Narrated byCarolyn Seymour
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateFeb 16, 2010
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1
6Chapter 6
2Chapter 2
7Chapter 7
3Chapter 3
8Chapter 8
4Chapter 4
9Chapter 9
5Chapter 5
About the author
Lynn Barber
Lynn Barber studied English at Oxford University. She began her career in journalism at Penthouse and has since worked for a number of major British newspapers and for Vanity Fair. She has won five British Press Awards and has published two volumes of her celebrated interviews, Mostly Men and Demon Barber.View all by Lynn Barber
