左右都是自己最亲密的人，左右都是自己不负责任勉强凑合在一起的朋友，以为好好地待在一旁，从此就能阳光明媚了。在衣冠禽兽的外表下，其实我也有自己的极端。也常常会建议自己爬上三十三层高楼的窗台去拿钥匙，而一个人闪失从上面落下来，“啪”一声就一塌糊涂了。写冷冷的语句也会让自己想哭，觉得自己这辈子真的是个错误，要受自己这样那样的折磨。男孩子除了冷漠还能怎么做？不能埋怨，不能悲恸。从外面回来，一屁股坐在电脑前，“哒哒哒”，手指一阵狂敲。我告诉你，这就是我不能哭出来的东西，就是我心里最真实的想法。

当记者林恩•巴博尔16岁在一个公车站被一个有魅力的老男人请进他的跑车时，她的生活彻底被毁了。她原本是一个朝着牛津大学努力的阳光自信女孩。与这个男人的情人关系意外地得到了她在郊区的传统的父母的支持，也让她走进了60年代初声名狼藉的伦敦西部的半犯罪世界。她深陷堕落，直到有一天她幡然醒悟。 《教育》，做为这一令人入迷的回忆录的开篇，首次在格兰塔杂志上发表时获得了高度评价，英国广播公司正在根据尼克•霍恩比改编的剧本将其搬上荧幕。 根据林恩•巴博尔的回忆录改编的电影《教育》的预演将于10月底发行。 Lynn Barber's true story is now a major film of the same name scripted by Nick Hornby. At 16, Lynn Barber was an ambitious schoolgirl working towards a place at Oxford, when she was picked up at a bus-stop by an attractive older man in a sports car. So began a relationship that almost wrecked her life. Barber's fascinating memoir takes us beyond this bizarre episode, revealing how it left her with an abiding mistrust of men which paradoxically led her to a promiscuous life-style at university until she met her husband-to-be. "An Education" tells how she went on to work for seven years at daring (for the times) men's magazine "Penthouse' before beginning her starry days as the Demon Barber - Britain's most entertaining and most feared interviewer. The book ends with an extraordinarily moving account of the early death of her husband. Her writing is refreshingly frank and funny.