Originally published as Imagine this : growing up with my brother John Lennon: U.K. : Hodder & Stoughton, 2007. Includes index.
Contents:
Reflecting Mummy -- Family roots -- The Stanley girls -- The sins of the fathers -- My father appears -- Blackpool -- The too-small apartment -- Time together -- The new-start house -- Stanley the hero -- Growing up -- John finds a way -- Foster care -- My son John -- Snapshots -- Part-time John -- The unconscious state of bliss -- Making music -- Bands to groups -- Teenage muscles -- Mimi's secret -- Launch of the Quarry Men -- College boy -- The nightmare you live -- Eye-witness accounts -- The end of life as we knew it -- Looking for John -- Life after Mummy -- Ghost hunting -- New love -- School lane -- Back to the cottage -- Famous brother -- A wedding and a record -- Beatle baby -- We love you, yeah, yeah, yeah! -- After Liverpool, the world -- Fab coats and caps -- Premieres and shopping trips -- Finsbury Park Astoria -- Mimi's move -- The King -- The nightmare, part two -- Psychedelic waves -- Marriage -- The unreal peace show -- A call from John -- Little boy lost -- Renewed contact -- Looking for Julian -- Chester -- 8 December 1980 -- Changes -- Norman -- Mimi -- Moving on -- The house -- Back to India -- Nanny -- Package for Yoko -- Postscript.
Summary:
A memoir by Lennon's half-sister offers insight into his childhood, describing challenges of the strong women who marked his upbringing, his removal from his mother's custody at the age of five, and the accident that took his mother's life when he was seventeen.
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