{"product_id":"9780141039558","title":"An Education","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Barber, Lynn \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 25\/06\/2009,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 224 pages, 8pp inset,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780141039558,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697293099052,"sku":"9780141039558","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780141039558_a4189675-2d21-44cb-9c11-6eb41bc1173e.jpg?v=1759663034","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780141039558","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}