Imagine This: Growing Up With My Brother John Lennon - Tapa blanda

'fascinating...all Beatles fans will be interested in the book, the best in recent years'. -- The Sunday Times 20051003 'an engaging memoir... along the way, it offers a fascinating glimpse into an altogether more innocent age, before star-makers and svengalis began colluding with marketing men and TV execs ...' -- Independent 20050930 'vivid and engaging... refreshingly free of bitterness.' -- Mail on Sunday 20050930 'A fascinating first-hand account of one of the most bizarre phenomena of the 20th century.' -- Sunday Telegraph 20051003 'Fascinating stuff' -- Evening Standard 20051004 'loving but candid... vividly captures the time and place and the characters.' -- Washington Post 20051003 'A fascinating read that offers an insight into a brilliant and complex man.' -- The Sun 20051003

Until now, the true story of John Lennon's childhood has never been told. John's sister Julia has herself been on a personal journey that has made it possible only now to reveal the full extent of the pain and difficulties -- as well as the happier times -- living inside John Lennon's family brought. Julia reveals the various strong, self-willed and selfish women who surrounded John as he grew up. John was removed from his mother at the age of 5 to live with his Aunt Mimi, and here Julia shows for the first time the cruelty of this decision -- to both mother and son, she sheds a new light on his upbringing with Mimi which is often at dramatic odds with the accepted tale. John's frequent visits to his mother and sisters gave him the liveliness, freedom and love he sought and allowed him to develop his musical talents. The tragic death of their mother, knocked down outside Aunt Mimi's house by a speeding car when John was 17, meant that life for him and his sisters would never be the same again. Poignant, raw and beautifully written, IMAGINE THIS casts John Lennon's life in a new light and reveals the source of his emotional fragility and musical genius. It is also one family's extraordinary story of how it dealt with fame and tragedy beyond all imagining.