I saw the film An Education back when it was nominated for the 2010 Oscars; the book was a very quick, enjoyable read. I didn’t realize when I started reading that the film was based on an article Barber wrote not the memoir. The movie actually only covers the first 40 or 50 pages of the book. So the story anyone who knows the movie is that: Lynn Barber began an affair with a much older (con)man named Simon when she was sixteen. The experience […]