An Education

An Education is Nick Hornby's Oscar-nominated screenplay of Lynn Barber's lifeBased on Lynn Barber's extraordinary memoir An Education is set in the early 1960s and tells the story of a sixteen-year-old English girl's encounter and relationship with a charming older man who is much more and much less than he says he is. Taking this strange story as his starting point Nick Hornby has scripted an Oscar-nominated film starring Carey Mulligan and Peter Sarsgraad which is funny and shocking in equal measure - and which brilliantly captures a Britain emerging from the sleepy 50s and on the brink of a glittering new decade.Fans of British writing and cinema alike from Brighton Rock to Atonement will enjoy this mesmerizing book.