BOOK CLUB - AN EDUCATION

Happy late Valentine's everyone, I hope your Saturday was just as you wanted it to be, whether you're soppy or not and you went to bed sighing contentedly because you just had a good day. Sorry if you didn't, next Saturday will be a bit better. 
ANYWAY...
Remember how I tried to do Wednesday book club a while back over summer and it really didn't work? Yeah, me too. I basically read too fast, so when Wednesday rolled around, I couldn't remember what I'd read and had started like 4 other books, oops. But because I am a right bookworm, I had to start it again! Only this time, it's on a Monday, I'm not going to drag out a book that's only about 200 pages and it'll be a bit better, I think. On y va! 

This week's book, An Education was written by British journalist Lynn Barber, who I think is amazing. A memoir based on her teenage years and relationship with conman Simon Goldman (who also went by the name Simon Prewalski), Barber's book is like a dramatic novel and was made into a movie with Carey Mulligan in the main role in 2006. 

Though several of Barber's stories and anecdotes centre around her many relationships whilst at Oxford "I slept with over 50 men, I was just jamming them in" - possibly my favourite line EVER, she manages to be funny, heartbreaking and thoughtful all at once. You find yourself rooting for Lynn the entire book and her relationship with her husband David, who passed away in 2003. My copy is signed by the lady herself after I met her and totally embarrassed myself whilst fangirling last year at Hay Festival. She signed it "To Hope, good luck, Lynn" and told me that at my age, her memoirs should be a handbook on how, or how not to handle life at university. I was too excited and giggly to think of a witty reply so she didn't ask me to be her journalistic prodigy or anything, but I'm sure she would've. 

It's not a huge book, not even 300 pages, but the feeling and soul crammed into the pages more than make up for it. Honest, brave and really really GOOD, An Education receives 4.5 Hope Stars out of 5. I also love the movie soundtrack for some proper good 60s tunes and one by Duffy. Remember Duffy? Hi, Duffy, if you're reading this.

Cheerio,

Hope x
PS, Hope Stars should be a thing, and I might photoshop some stars with my face on for future book club posts. What do we think?