The inspiration for the award-winning motion picture: "Candid, unsentimental and extremely funny. I read it in one glorious go, laughing and crying throughout."—Zoë Heller\ 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 precocious experience—an affair with an older man that would change her life. Barber’s seducer left her with a taste...
The inspiration for the award-winning motion picture: "Candid, unsentimental and extremely funny. I read it in one glorious go, laughing and crying throughout."—Zoë Heller
\ Nick Hornby“[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.”\ \