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Imagine
This : Growing Up with My Brother John
Lennon
- Julia Baird
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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