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Author:	Julia Baird
Title:	Imagine This
Subtitle:	Growing Up With My Brother John Lennon
Publisher:	Hodder & Stoughton
Country:	UK
Date:	8 Feb 2007
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Non-Fiction, Biography
ISBN13 / Barcode:	9780340839249
Total Editions:	2
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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352 pages. Book dimensions: 15.7 cms x 3.1 cms x 24 cms.

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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.

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